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S hand a long crook, to which he had fastened a bright steel point. His
phlegmatic face and thoughtful eyes made him as strong a contrast as
possible to the forester. All in all, the armed force of the estate did
not amount to more than twenty men; consequently, it was very difficult
to maintain any regular system of watching, either in the castle or the
village. Each individual, it was plain, would have to make the greatest
efforts, but none of them complained. The next step was to see to the
securing of the castle--to protect it from any nocturnal assault in the
rear. Anton had a strong wooden fence run up from one wing to another.
Thus a tolerably large court-yard was inclosed, and an open shed was
roughly built on to the walls, to shelter fugitives and horses, if need
were. The windows of the lower story were also strongly boarded; and as
all the entrances were on this side of the house, strangers were allowed
as little ingress as possible. The well that supplied the castle lay
outside the fence, between the farm-yard and the castle: on which
account, a large water-butt was made an