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At night, after supper, as was usual in great families during the winter, the household gathered about the hearth and occupied the time in relating divers tales. At last they told how in the near-by plain of Wandlesbury there was a haunted mound. There in old days the Vandals, who laid waste the land and slaughtered Christians, had pitched their camp and built about it a great rampart.
Now, when Albert heard this marvelous tale, he greatly doubted its truth, and was determined to put the matter to a test. As the moon was shining brightly, and the night was quiet, he armed, mounted, and immediately hastened to the plain of Wandlesbury, accompanied by a squire of noble blood. He ascended the mound, dismissed his attendant, and shouted: "Let my adversary appear!"
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