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The fire threw a frightful blood-red glare over mountain and forest, and gilded the white rocks in the distance as if they too were flaming. The stars twinkled faintly through the ruddy glow. "Now you may sleep in peace, my children," said Barbara Pirka. "By the time the young vihodar returns, he will find only the ruins of his house, and will fancy that his wife has been burnt likewise.
Pirka greeted her with strangely sounding words, not one of which Michal understood, and the kopanitschar's wife answered in the same fashion. "Have you offered up a witch's prayer, and if so, for what have you prayed?" "I have prayed that the devil may take the old vihodar." "He has got him already. Janko bit him in the neck, and immediately he was a dead man."
So his father is the vihodar of Zeb, the headsman, the man who works in blood, not the blood of sheep and oxen, but the blood of men! This is his house, his territory. His house is shut out from the town, the boundary of his dominion is the gallows. Those stakes by the wayside with wheels fastened to them are his mile-posts.
"Sir," said the carter, hesitating, "why are you going in that direction? Here is no other house but that one yonder," and he pointed to the lonely house which stood below the town, all lurid in the evening twilight. "And thither we must go." "Jesus Christ preserve us!" stammered the wagoner, "that is the house of the vihodar." "And thither I say we must go."
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