cellor of the tribunal, and commence it immediately. The
prince then, after a pause, during which he went to the window and saw,
with wonder, the immense multitude before the house, said: "You will be
obliged to have a guard for the first days to watch over you here and
when you go out!" Kohlhaas cast down his eyes surprised and was
silent. "Well, no matter!" said the prince, leaving the window,
"whatever happens you will only have yourself to blame." He then moved
towards the door with the design of quitting the house. Kohlhaas, who
had recovered, said, "Do as you please, gracious prince! Only pledge
me your word to remove the guard as soon as I desire it and I have no
objection to make against this measure." "That is not worth speaking
of," said the prince, who after telling the three soldiers, who were
appointed as guards, that the man in whose house they were placed was
free, and that when he went out they were merely to follow him for his
protection, took leave of the horse-dealer with a condescending wave of
the hand and departed.

About noon, Kohlhaas, attended by his three guards, and followed by a
countless multitude, who, warned by the police, did him no manner of
injury, proceeded to the chancellor's. Count Wrede received him, in
his anteroom, with kindness and affability, discoursed with him for two
entire hours, and after he had heard the whole course of events from
the beginning to the end of the affair, he directed him to a celebrated
advocate in the city, who was attached to the court, that he might
favourably draw up his complaint. Kohlhaas without further delay went
to the advocate's house, and after the complaint was drawn up, which,
like the first rejected one, required the punishment of the squire
according to law, the restoration of the horses to their former
condition, and a compensation both for the damage he had sustained, and
for what his servant, Herse, who had fallen at Muehlberg, had suffered
(for the benefit of his mother), he again returned home, still followed
by the gaping multitude, resolving not to go out of doors any more
unless urgent necessity demanded it.

In the meanwhile Squire Wenzel von Tronka was released from his
confinement in Wittenberg, and after he had recovered from a dangerous
erysipelas in the foot, was peremptorily summoned by the tribunal to
appear at Dresden, and answer the complaint of the horse-dealer,
Kohlhaas, respecting certain horses, which had been