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His eyes gleamed with a greed he could not hide as he told King Gunther of the gold that had been strewed upon the mountain-side, of the jewels that had sparkled there, for Hagen was envious of the riches of the great hero.
They waited but for the sunrise, and a word from Gunther the king, to ride forth over dale and woodland, and through forest and brake and field, to meet, as they believed, the hosts of the North-land kings. And Siegfried moved among them, calm-faced and bright as a war-god, upon the radiant Greyfell.
Here, reckon yourself, my man, and content you with these. He threw a fistful of gold besants on the flags, turned his horse sharply and cantered out of the yard. 'Colossal man! gasped the innkeeper. 'King or devil, but no merchant under the sun. So the news spread abroad, and Gunther puffed his cheeks over it.
"Since it is your last day with us," said Gunther, grown cunning through Hagen's teaching, "what say you, dear Siegfried, to a hunt in Odin's Wood?" "Right glad will I be to join you in such sport," answered Siegfried. "I will change my war-coat for a hunting-suit, and be ready within an hour."
But when they saw the boat full of blood from the grim wound he had given the ferryman, they began to question him. When Gunther saw the hot blood heaving in the boat, he said quickly, "Tell me what thou hast done with the ferryman. I ween he hath fallen by thy strength." But he answered with a lie, "I found the boat by a waste meadow, and loosed it.
Mary was sorry when the sittings came to an end. On the last day the sculptor brought two men with him, who made the return journey in the tonneau, each guarding a carefully swathed bust against the inequalities of the road. Gunther bowed low over her hand with a word of thanks at parting, and she watched his car out of sight regretfully.
"The more backward of the two, but under my guidance in half a century it will be the more advanced, mark me." "Look here," Martin Gunther said. "Do we have two of each of the basic specialists, so that we can divide the party in such a way that neither planet will miss out in any one field?" Amschel Mayer was beaming at the reception of his scheme.
Gunther and Hagen told Kriemhilda that robbers in the wood had slain her husband, but she could not be deceived. Kriemhilda determined to take vengeance on the murderers of Siegfried, and so she would not leave Worms. There, too, stayed one thousand knights who had followed Siegfried from the Nibelung land.
"So let us try it then," quoth Hagen, the knight. Spake the sturdy Siegfried: "Then will I lay me down on the green sward at your feet." How lief it was to Gunther, when he heard these words! Then the bold knight spake again: "I'll tell you more. I'll take with me all my trappings, my spear and shield and all my hunting garb." Around him he quickly girded his quiver and his sword.
Siegfried, donning the magic cloak of invisibility he had won from Alberich, king of the dwarfs, took Gunthers place and won the three trials for him, Gunther going through a pantomime of the appropriate actions while Siegfried performed the feats. The passage which tells of the encounter is curious. A great spear, heavy and keen, was brought forth for Brunhilds use.
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