The other men said to him, “What is that? What is that?”
“Nothing at all. It would have been better to have gone elsewhere.”
When they had finished supper, they show them to bed, but our young gentleman does not go to sleep. He hears in the middle of the night a great noise made by the robbers, who were returning home laden with silver. The woman said to them:
“Go gently. We have three men here, and they say that one of them is very rich.”
Our young man hears that. He wakes his comrades, and they jump out of the window and escape. They walk on the whole day. When night comes they see a beautiful house, and they ask to be lodged there that night. They said to them:
“Certainly, with pleasure, but you will not have much rest; we have a daughter who for seven years shrieks out in pain night and day.”
These men say to the young man: “Will not you cure her—you?”
He said to them: “I will try.”
(The narrator had forgotten how this was done).
They were very rich. When he had cured the young girl, this poor father said to him: