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These soldiers belong to the Archbishop of Mayence , who commands an additional three thousand within the walls of Frankfort . Mayence holds the southern gate , as Treves holds the western and Cologne the northern . You see at once what that implies . Mayence can pour his troops into Frankfort , say , at midnight , and in the morning he has ten thousand soldiers as compared with the three thousand each commanded by the Archbishops of Treves and Cologne . That means civil war , and the complete crushing of the two northern Archbishops . '' `` I think you take too serious a view of the matter , '' commented Roland . `` Mayence is undoubtedly a subtle man , who takes every precaution that he shall have his own way .