Copyright, 1898, by Little, Brown, and Company.
["THE LITTLE KNIGHT, HAVING DISCOVERED THE WHOLE POWER OF HIS OPPONENT, PUSHED ON HIM BRISKLY."]
"And you should put yourself at rest, for in fact you have nothing to fight about," said Zagloba.
"Impossible!" answered the light-horseman, "for it is a question here of my reputation, for which I am glad to give my life."
"I have no claim on your life. It is better to drop the matter; for to tell you the truth, I have not come in your way as you imagine. Some other man better than I will stand in your way, but not I."
"Is that true?"
"My knightly word for it."
"Then make peace with each other," cried the Selitskis and Kushel.
"Let it be so," said Kharlamp, opening his arms.
Volodyovski fell into them, and the two men kissed each other till the echoes resounded along the bank.