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At last they plunged a hook into his side and hoisted him aloft, and even then he showered down insults upon all the women present at the bloody spectacle, till at last he gave up his unconquerable spirit, which had surely made some mistake in choosing a simple human body for its earthly dwelling-place. The old vihodar was ashamed.
I told him not who my father was; had I told him, he would not have given me his daughter. No one knows the family name of my father; his grandfather dwelt in this very house, he took over this ghastly office from his predecessor, and this predecessor was called the vihodar.
Their second plan was to steal their way into the lair of the vihodar of Zeb through a secret subterranean passage, capture him and his son alive, and make them suffer all the tortures which they had inflicted on their comrades; as for the young woman, they would cast lots for her. For a long time they could not come to any agreement.
At last they resolved to attack the Iglo fair; the vihodar they would leave to some subsequent occasion, especially as they would first of all have to gain over Barbara Pirka, for otherwise that evil witch was quite capable of throttling all the assailants one after the other single-handed. Simplex listened, and his teeth chattered with fear.
"Tell them that they are both on my bad books; the woman because she a little time ago drank mead and danced till morning with the headman of Leta at the church consecration there; the man because he lately guided the son of the vihodar of Zeb and his wife over the mountains, and thus helped them to escape us. Tell them that I mean to pay them a visit shortly.
"No, not into this hideous hole, perhaps, not into the house of the vihodar, but into a quiet little cot where the doves bill and coo on the gables." "But how am I to get there? I should not care about sitting on the buck-goat." "Nor need you.
Last of all came the headsman, the old vihodar himself, on a white horse, dressed in a long red mantle half covering his steed; a black biretta with a red plume covered his head, and he held a naked sword in his right hand. Two of his henchmen led the horse. Behind him marched eight apprentices, who brought with them a whole arsenal of instruments of torture.
But honor constrained him to cope personally with the second robber. Hafran was a frantic devil. He howled curses at the vihodar and overwhelmed him with insults. He told him to his face that he was a clumsy bungler. Then the old vihodar took his biretta from his head, doffed his coat, and set about accomplishing his masterpiece. The spectators had reason to be satisfied with both performers.
Such things were no less than flagrant infringements of the Council of Linz, and had lost the parish four Kremnitz ducats. Thence the learned gentleman proceeded to Zeb, where he inquired after Henry's father, old Catsrider. No one had ever heard such a name at Zeb. The father and grandfather of Henry had always been called the vihodar, and that was all.
"This here is the old vihodar, and that yonder is his son. Look, there's a coffin. Death threatens the old vihodar. The robbers will kill him." "What nonsense," interrupted Michal. "I don't say it. The cards say it. Victory and might await the young master. He kills the robber, and will be promoted to his father's place." Michal laughed. "That is certainly not true.
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