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Updated: May 26, 2025
He felt that about him was only night, night and darkness, a horrible abyss into which he must plunge. Suddenly a voice whispered in his ear: "Go! Go!" And he looked around him and saw the very image of death, a skeleton mounted upon a skeleton horse, pressing closely beside him, with his white rattling bones. "Is it you?" asked Zygfried. "Yes it is. Go! Go!"
Tolima, who had been accustomed to guard prisoners for many years, frequently looked at Zygfried watchfully, as though he were guarding against his escaping suddenly, and an involuntary shudder seized him every time he looked at Zygfried, because his eyes appeared to him to be shining in the darkness like the eyes of an evil spirit, or of a vampire.
At first Zygfried resolved to starve himself to death; but when be heard the announcement that in such case Hlawa would forcibly open his teeth with a knife and stuff the food down his throat, he gave up his intention in order to avoid such a degradation of the Order and knightly honor.
He was finally seized with such a terrible rage that he grasped his sword and rushed toward Zygfried, and he would have certainly killed him, had not Macko grasped him by the arm. Then like enemies they struggled with each other. But the young man was so much fatigued from his previous fight with the gigantic Arnold, that the old knight prevailed.
Diedrich again bowed in silence, but his face was drawn on account of the terrible, ominous recollection; for his tongue was torn out for quite another reason than what Zygfried said. "Now proceed, and lead to the underground cell where Jurand is." The executioner grasped the handle of the kettle with his gigantic hand, picked up the lantern and then left.
"No, count," replied Rotgier; "I ordered the floor to be scrubbed and the place to be fumigated with sulphur. It is the odor of sulphur." And Zygfried looked at those present with a strange glance, and said: "God have mercy upon the soul of our brothers Danveld and Godfried!"
But after a while Brother Rotgier turned toward Zygfried von Loeve, and said: "Your judgment and experience are equal to your bravery: what do you think about this plan?" "I think that the matter is worthy of consideration." "Because," said Rotgier further, "the girl is a lady-in-waiting with the princess the princess loves her as if she were her own daughter.
So they again approached him, and touching his chin with their pewters, said: "You would like to drink, Mazovian snout!" and others, pouring the beer into their palms, cast it into his eyes, while he stood among them stunned and abused, until at last he moved toward the old Zygfried, and apparently feeling that he could not stand it any longer, he began to cry so loudly as to deafen the noise in the hall: "By the torture of the Saviour and the salvation of the soul, restore to me my child, as you promised!"
Zygfried again pulled the cowl over his head, but he recollected something before leaving, and he asked: "Where is van Krist?" "He also was killed," replied one of the servants, "but they were obliged to bury him in Ciechanow because putrefaction set in." "Very well."
Then either we did not rescue your daughter from the murderers or some wizard has changed her, because there is no other in Szczytno." Old Zygfried, Rotgier and Godfried exchanged quick glances with each other, full of admiration at the shrewdness of Danveld, but none of them had time enough to speak, because Jurand began to shout with a terrible voice: "She is, she is in Szczytno!
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