Ille.—"Right. He owed the fellow a drubbing already himself, and now he would have a double one, if he could only get hold of him."
Hic.—"He would run and tell him that a great lord wanted to speak to him here in the forest."
Ille.-"No, no; that would scarcely answer; but where did the fellow live?"
Hic.-"In the castle, where his father lived likewise."
Ille.-"Who was his father?"
Hic.—"His father was the steward."
Ille.—"Ah, then, he kept the keys of the castle?"
Hic.—"Oh yes, and the key of the back entrance also, which led through the gardens. His father kept one key, and the gardener the other."
Ille.—"Well, he would tell him a secret. This very Kell had deceived him once, like a knave as he was, and he was watching to punish him, but he daren't go up to the castle in the broad daylight, particularly now while the wedding was going on. How long would it last?"
Hic.—"For three days more; it had lasted three days already, and the castle was full of company, and great lords from all the country round, a great deal grander even than old Dewitz, were there."