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Updated: May 13, 2025
Clevi, who was gifted with a far-carrying voice, began: "Come out, you ghost of Wildenstein!" And the boys with voices of thunder chimed in: "For we are not afraid." "Just look! Who is coming there? Who can it be?" said Kurt, staring at the terrace. An incredibly tall figure, which could not possibly be human, was wandering across the terrace with slow steps.
She is always punished for the slightest little fault." "But she never defends herself," Kurt said, half in anger, partly with pity. "If those two ever tried to harm Clevi, they would soon get their faces scratched; Apollonie has brought Loneli up the wrong way." "Should you like to see Loneli jump at a boy's face and scratch it, Kurt?" asked the mother.
"Oh, they've gone, they were afraid," said Max. "They were there, though, when we came into the woods." "The cowards!" Clevi cried indignantly, "To be afraid of trees! That certainly is funny." "Well, we aren't afraid anyway; otherwise we shouldn't be here any more. Call to those who are gone," Max called back. "Come on now, come!" Kurt commanded.
It could not be a tree either, for it slowly moved over towards the woods. Did he really see straight, or was it the moonlight which was throwing a flitting shadow. That moment Max, who was very big, turned about and fled. The four others followed headlong, leaving only Lux and Clevi beside Kurt. The horrible figure came nearer and nearer, and it could now be clearly discerned.
Three of the girls, after mysteriously whispering together, were gone, too, and with them several more stole away, for there was a strange rustling in the bushes. Kurt with Lux and his enterprising sister Clevi were at the extreme front. When it became very still, Kurt turned around. "Come along! Where are you all?" he called back.
I shall make a song about him soon and then we'll go up and sing it for him. All my school friends want to go with me; Max, Hans and Clevi, his sister. You must come, too, Mea, and then you'll see how the ghost will sneak away as soon as we scream at him and sing awfully loud." "But, Kurt, how can a ghost, which doesn't exist, sneak away?" Mea exclaimed.
Here the three singers stood horror-stricken, not uttering a sound. Lux, like one crazed, suddenly rushed headlong away between the trees and down the hill. Clevi once more looked at the approaching figure with wide-open eyes. Before following her brother she wanted to see exactly what the knight looked like. Kurt was left quite alone, and still the fearful creature stalked nearer.
How can you talk when you haven't even seen him?" Kurt flung the last leaves away impatiently and tried to go. But Loneli would not yield. "Just wait a moment, Kurt," she entreated. "It is true that I did not see him, but Clevi told me all about him. I know why he looked that way and why he was so enormous. I also know where he got the armour, the long blue mantle, and the high black plumes."
As not one of them wanted to admit the hasty retreat before the ghost had even been properly inspected, they only dropped vague and terrifying words about the matter. Brave little Clevi, who usually relished telling of her dangerous adventures when they had turned out well, was as silent as a mouse about it all.
So Loneli put two and two together, and having made these observations, was filled with sudden wrath. As soon as school was ended, she rushed to the astonished Clevi: "Oh, I know what you have done, Clevi. Kurt was your leader and you didn't obey him; you all ran away because you were afraid. Oh, you have spoiled it all for him." "Yes, and what about him?
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