"There, there!" cried Sepper; "there lies your gamekeeper: now marry him!"
Tony stood like a statue, without speech or motion. At last she said, "Sepper, Sepper, you have made yourself and me unhappy."
"What am I to you? I ask nothing more of anybody," cried Sepper, and fled toward the highlands. He was never heard of again.
On the way to Muehringen, in the cherry-copse, is a stone cross, to mark the spot where the gamekeeper of Muehringen was slain.
Tony lived through many years of solitary grief.
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
1.
On May morning a magnificent tree was found before the house of Michael the wagoner.