About noon
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 Mühlberg , had suffered -LRB- for the benefit of his mother -RRB- , 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 unlawfully detained and spoiled .