"And for my sake, wilt thou tell him, Pauline?" said Otto.

"But see, Otto," said the little girl, "if I tell him, wilt thou
promise to come indeed and marry me when thou art grown a man?"

Yes," said Otto, very seriously, " I will promise."

"Then I will tell thy father where thou art," said she.

"But thou wilt do it without the Baron Henry knowing, wilt thou
not, Pauline?"

"Yes," said she, "for if my father and my mother knew that I did
such a thing, they would strike me, mayhap send me to my bed
alone in the dark."


IX.

How One-eyed Hans came to Trutz-Drachen.

Fritz, the swineherd, sat eating his late supper of porridge out
of a great, coarse, wooden bowl; wife Katherine sat at the other
end of the table, and the half-naked little children played upon
the earthen floor. A shaggy dog lay curled up in front of the
fire, and a grunting pig scratched against a leg of the rude
table close beside where the woman sat.

"Yes, yes," said Katherine, speaking of the matter of which they
had already been talking. "It is all very true that the