but he was ready to guarantee his Hochwurde that in an hour or two
he would bring him the list. On this his Hochwurde consented to
countermand the bearers.

"Schwabe now rushed from house to house, obtaining a ready assent
from all whom he found at home. But as some were out, he sent round
a circular, begging those who would come to place a mark against
their names. He requested them to meet at his lodgings 'at half-
past twelve o'clock that night; a light would be placed in the
window to guide those who were not acquainted with the house; they
would be kind enough to be dressed in black; but mourning-hats,
crapes and mantles he had already provided.' Late in the evening he
placed the list in Gunther's hands. Several appeared to whom he had
not applied; in all about twenty.

"Between midnight and one in the morning the little band proceeded
to Schiller's house. The coffin was carried down stairs and placed
on the shoulders of the friends in waiting. No one else was to be
seen before the house or in the streets. It was a moonlight night
in May, but clouds were up. The procession moved through the
sleeping city to the churchyard of St. James. Having arrived there
they placed their burden on the ground at the door of the so-called
Kassengewolbe, where the gravedigger and his assistants took it up.
In this vault, which belonged to the province of Weimar, it was
usual to inter persons of the higher classes, who possessed no
burying-ground of their own, upon payment of a louis d'or. As
Schiller had died without securing a resting-place for himself and
his family, there could have been no more natural arrangement than
to carry his remains to this vault. It was a grim old building,
standing against the wall of the churchyard, with a steep narrow