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`` If you are content to take the word of the servants of a traitor and a would-be regicide , '' he cried , `` I am not . There has been no proof advanced that this man is not the king . In so far as I am concerned he is the king , nor ever do I expect to serve another more worthy of the title . `` If Peter of Blentz has real proof -- not the testimony of his own faction -- that Leopold of Lutha is dead , let him bring it forward before noon today , for at noon we shall crown a king in the cathedral at Lustadt , and I for one pray to God that it may be he who has led us in battle today . '' A shout of applause rose from the Royal Horse , and from the foot-soldiers who had seen the king charge across the plain , scattering the enemy before him . Barney , appreciating the advantage in the sudden turn affairs had taken following Butzow 's words , swung to his saddle . `` Until Peter of Blentz brings to Lustadt one with a better claim to the throne , '' he said , `` we shall continue to rule Lutha , nor shall other than Leopold be crowned her king .