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Updated: May 9, 2025
"The youth is guilty; he has brought disgrace on the country! They must execute him!" But the little hands clung closer and closer to his knees and the child cried more and more pitifully: "Forgive Zbyszko, king, forgive Zbyszko!" Now the voices of some knights were heard to exclaim: "Jurand of Spychow is a famous knight, and the cause of awe to the Germans."
In Bogdaniec one could very easily kill a bear!" "Then we must go to Bogdaniec! Only you must not die on the road." Old Macko looked at his nephew with tenderness. "I know where you would like to go; to the Prince Janusz's court, or to Jurand of Spychow, and fight the Germans of Chelminsko." "I will not deny it.
He secretly determined to send Sanderus from Spychow to Szczytno, in order to find that woman and to try to learn from her what had happened to Danusia. He said to himself that, even if Sanderus wished to betray him, he could do little harm in the matter, and on the contrary might render great service, because his trade gained admittance for him everywhere.
It is true that you remain here, but perfectly secure. The name of Jurand I have learned in Szczytno, is still a terror to the Germans, and if they learn that he is now at Spychow they will be terrified at once." "We know that they will not dare to come here, because the swamps and old Tolima defend this place, but it will be hard to sit here without news."
He beheld before him a gigantic man with fallow hair and moustache, with a face pitted with smallpox and one eye of iron-like color. It seemed to him as if this eye would pierce him, and he again became confused. Finally, not knowing what to say, but wishing to say something to break the embarrassing silence, he asked: "Then you are Jurand of Spychow, Danusia's father?"
His heart was burning with rage, pain and sorrow, but at the same time he did not lose hope; it seemed to him that he and the formidable knight of Spychow together would be able to accomplish everything and that they were equal to attacking the whole Teutonic force.
The meadow between the woods and road now sparkled in the shiny light of the moon, and upon its white mournful cover he really espied dark spots, but those were only wolves that quickly vanished at the approach of people. "Your grace!" finally said the Bohemian. "Our search is in vain, for the young lady of Spychow was not in the train." "To the road!" replied Zbyszko.
But not wishing to add shame to her other troubles, she restrained herself from weeping. She wished that she had never left Zgorzelice; in that case she would not now have to return thither. Then, she thought, it was not only to remove the cause for attacks upon Zgorzelice by Cztan and Wilk that Macko brought her to Spychow. That she could not believe.
But Jurand dwelling in Spychow, surrounded by marshes overgrown with rushes, and being filled with an unquenchable desire for vengeance, was so dreaded by his German neighbors, that finally their fear became greater than their courage. The lands bordering upon Spychow, were lying fallow; the forests were overgrown with wild hops and the meadows with reeds.
Only when a second attendant lifted the head from the chest, they all exclaimed with one accord: "It is the lord of Spychow!" Zbyszko ordered two of his men to carry him to the nearest hut and try to resuscitate him, but himself lost no time but hastened with the rest of the attendants and the guide to rescue the rest of the retinue.
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