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Updated: May 25, 2025
The Knights of the Cross became pale and Sir de Fourcy looked at them askance. "What will happen now?" asked Brother Rotgier, who was the first to break the silence. Hugo von Danveld turned to Sir de Fourcy and menacing him with his fists, said: "Why did you tell him that you attacked Jurand?" "Because it is true!" "You should have lied." "I came here to fight and not to lie."
"I shall not object as to the girl," repeated Zygfried; "but this wolf will yet make the sheep of the Order weep more than once." "And our word?" queried Danveld, laughingly. "You spoke differently...." Danveld shrugged his shoulders. "Did you not have enough pleasure?" he inquired. "Do you wish more?"
Von Loeve urged them forward because he realized that after what had happened, they could not lose time in nursing Danveld. Having seated himself beside him in the wagon, he rubbed his face with snow from time to time; but he could not resuscitate him. At last when near the frontier, Danveld opened his eyes and began to look around. "How do you feel?" asked Loeve.
If I give up Jurand and his daughter then all our actions will be truly revealed, and the world will not say Danveld or Zygfried have done it but they will lay the blame upon the Knights of the Cross, and disgrace will fall upon the whole Order, and the hatred of that prince will be greater than ever.
One of them said to him: "The princess is here and Jurandowna also; you will see her soon, my dear boy; then you will go with us to the hunting party." At this moment the two guests of the prince, the Knights of the Cross, entered: brother Hugo von Danveld, starosta of Ortelsburg, and Zygfried von Loeve, bailiff of Jansbork.
Therefore on hearing about it, we ordered thanksgiving masses because only a plain court lady, and not one of the children born of your Highness, was captured from the Forest Court." "But I still wonder, how you could mistake a wench for Jurand's daughter." "Danveld said: 'Often Satan betrayed his servants, so perhaps he changed Jurand's daughter."
Listening to the conversation of the monks, and especially to what Hugo von Danveld said, he could not refrain from astonishment. It is true, that having become well acquainted during the past few years with the Knights of the Cross, he knew that they were not what they were represented to be in Germany and in the West.
Do not ask me for anything else, because I will not grant it." After these words, there was a profound silence. Hugo von Danveld, Zygfried von Loeve, Brother Rotgier and Brother Godfried, although brave, knew the dreadful lord of Spychow too well to dare to challenge him for life or death.
Here the brothers of the Order looked at one another, and their faces changed in the twinkling of an eye. Hugo von Danveld, especially, looked questioningly into Zygfried von Loeve's eyes; then he turned to Sir de Fourcy: "Your ancestors," said he, "used to serve in the Order, and you wished to join it also; but we do not receive traitors." "And I do not wish to serve with traitors."
"Are you threatening me?" interrupted de Fourcy. "No, but I kill!" answered Danveld. And he thrust his knife into de Fourcy's side with such strength, that the blade disappeared up to the hilt.
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