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After dinner, which we all took together that day, she put him off with excuses until drowsy Uncle Castleman had taken himself off for a nap. Then Yolanda quickly said: "Fetch me my hood, Twonette. I shall not need a cloak. I am going to walk out with Sir Max." Twonette instantly obeyed, as if she were a tire-woman to a princess, and soon returned wearing her own hood and carrying Yolanda's.
If Charles returned from Switzerland victorious and no other outcome seemed possible he would no longer have reason to carry out the marriage treaty with France. It had been made largely for the purpose of keeping Louis quiet while Charles was absent. Anything might happen; everything might happen, while Max was with Charles in Switzerland and Yolanda at home making trouble with France.
If Yolanda were the princess, and if the duke with his intentions regarding her immediate marriage, should reach Peronne and find his daughter absent, his wrath against all concerned would be unappeasable.
Then we went into the house. "We hope to see you again for supper to-morrow evening, don't we, uncle?" said Yolanda, addressing Max and me, and turning to Castleman. "Yes yes, to-morrow evening," said the burgher, hesitatingly. Max accepted the invitation and we made our adieux. At the bridge over the Cologne we met Hymbercourt returning to his house from the castle.
If that be true, he must be worse than the brutes of the field, but you may be sure, Yolanda, the stories are false." "Alas! I fear they are too true," responded the girl, sighing in memory of the afternoon. "He is a pleasing companion when he wishes to be," said Max, "and I hear his daughter, the princess, is much like him."
Calli, whose helmet had dropped from his head when he fell, lay resting on his elbow, half risen and bareheaded. Max stood deliberately taking his battle-axe from his girdle chain, while Yolanda still knelt at his feet. Battle-axe in hand, Max stepped toward Calli, who had risen to his knees. The expression on the Italian's face I shall never forget.
I discovered it by by magic by sorcery. He will tell you as much." "By the magic of your eyes and smiles. That's the way you wheedled it out of him, and that's the way you coax every one to your will," said Castleman, laughing while Yolanda pouted. "I never saw a girl make such eyes at a man as you made at this Sir Max," said Twonette, who was waiting for her blue velvet gown.
Were there good reason why you should go near the brink, I should despise you if you refused; but there is no reason and, since it frightens me, I wish you would remain in the road." "Gladly I will," answered Max, reining his horse beside her. "Do you know," said Yolanda, with as much seriousness as she could easily command, "that your friend, Sir Karl, is a philosopher?
"Do you know the duke?" asked Max, suspecting for the first time that Yolanda might be more intimate about the court than he had supposed. "I have heard much of him from those who know him," answered Yolanda. So the duke got Caesar. The next morning Hymbercourt came to the inn to accompany us to the castle. While we were sipping a mug of wine at a garden table, he said:
The guard appeared at that moment on the castle battlements, and Max and Yolanda sought the shelter of a grove of trees a dozen paces from the bridge on the town side of the moat. They seated themselves on a bench, well within the shadow of the trees, and after a moment's silence Max said: "I shall not come to the bridge again, Fräulein.
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