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ANDREAS HOFER

An HISTORICAL NOVEL

by Lousia Muhlbach

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I 1809 II The Emperor Francis III The Courier and the Ambassador IV The Emperor and his Brothers V The Performance of "The Creation" VI Andreas Hofer VII Andreas Hofer at the Theatre VIII Consecration of the Flags, and Farewell IX Tis Time! X Anthony Wallner of Windisch-Matrey XI The Declaration of Love XII Farewell! XIII The Bridegroom XIV The Bridge of St. Lawrence XV The Bridge of Laditch XVI On the Sterzinger Moos XVII The Hay-Wagons XVIII Capture of Innspruck XIX The Capitulation of Wiltau XX Eliza Wallner's Return XXI The Catastrophe XXII Eliza and Ulrich XXIII The Triumph of Death XXIV The Archduke John at Comorn XXV The Emperor Francis at Wolkersdorf XXVI The Reply of the King of Prussia XXVII The Battle of Wagram XXVIII The Armistice of Znaym XXIX Hofer and Speckbacher XXX The Capuchin's Oath XXXI The First Battle XXXII The Fifteenth of August at Innspruck XXXIII Andreas Hofer, the Emperor's Lieutenant XXXIV The Fifteenth of August at Comorn XXXV A Day of the Emperor's Lieutenant XXXVI The Lovers XXXVII Elza's ReturnXXXVIII The Wedding XXXIX The Treaty of Peace XL Dreadful Tidings XLI Betrayal and Seizure of Hofer XLII The Warning XLIII The Flight XLIV Andreas Hofer's Death

CHAPTER I.

1809.

The year 1809 had come; but the war against France, so intenselylonged for by all Austria, had not yet broken out, and the peopleand the army were vainly waiting for the war-cry of their sovereign,the Emperor Francis. It is true, not a few great things bad beenaccomplished in the course of the past year: Austria had armed,organized the militia, strengthened her fortresses, and filled hermagazines; but the emperor still hesitated to take the last and mostdecisive step by crowning his military preparations with a formaldeclaration of war.

No one looked for this declaration of war more intensely than theemperor's second brother, the Archduke John, a young man of scarcelytwenty-seven. He had been the soul of all the preparations which,since the summer of 1808, had been made throughout Austria; he hadconceived the plan of organizing the militia and the reserves; andhad drawn up the proclamation of the 12th of May, 1808, by which allable-bodied Austrians were called upon to take up arms. But thisexhausted his powers; he could organize the army, but could not sayto it, "Take the field against the enemy!" The emperor alone couldutter this word, and he was silent.

"And he will be silent until the favorable moment has passed,"sighed the Archduke John, when, on returning from a very longinterview with the emperor, he was alone with his friend, GeneralNugent, in his cabinet.

He had communicated to this confidant the full details of hisinterview with the emperor, and concluded his report by saying, witha deep sigh, "The em

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