“Yes you are sold to the Baron, and you must be

off at once. Your price is paid—fifty crowns of the

white silver and as much of the yellow gold.”

II.

She had not gone far from the hamlet

when she heard the ringing of the bells; whereat

she wept.

“Adieu Saint Ann! Adieu, bells of my fatherland;

Bells of my village church, adieu!”

III.