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coals. There was no artist's name,
now walking without help, added sure of that but not on a human He smiled. How did she know another plate to the table that was being. The cyca were like two live
already laid for two... The was English? She answered
They supped, and afterwards, no date; only a tarnished metal readily that all rich travellers were while Gertrud washed up, the old plate on the frame inscribed with English.
She was playing with one of the woman locked up the house. She the word "Gertrud." great leathern buttons of his Nor-bolted the high windows and barred. He turned from it with an cerle a pleasant folk jacket, and from time to time the great door. He asked if the feeling. It was not
house were hers, and she replied thing in a strange bedroom, and she looked up into his face archly, that it was. The family had fallen now he noticed for the first time
It was nearly eight o'clock and
on evil times, she said. Her son that his candle was already burning the sun was sinking when he saw had been killed in the terrible war low in its socket. He would call jahead a grey mass. It loomed UP they were two lone women now, them. He would ask for another suddenly from the surrounding He produced a roll of banknotes, candle. It was foolish, but he felt trees a compror.nse betwcen ** fortified mansion and a small castle, and asked awkwardly what they that he would be afraid in the dark. A feeblo wreath of smoke was float-would accept for his night's lodging. He went to the door, turned the The old woman shook her head and handle and made to open it. It ing over its chimneys.
"wiped away a tear. The guest did stuck.
not pay in Germany,' she 'averred. He turned it the other way; it Gertrud was lighting two tallow would not give. It was locked on dips, one of which she handed to the outside! him. She herself took the other.
"It is called the Schloss,
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"You live there?" "Yes."
"Where is it: how is this called?"
She looked vacant, seeming hard-| ly to comprehend his question..
"It is very deep in the forest," she said at last.
They drew near the broken-down gates of the outer wall, and through them he saw the bent figure of an old woman digging in the earth. Gertrud had seen her too. "It is Granny," she said.
4
In his rage he would have batter-
If the Herr Traveller was ready,fed on it; he would have cried out: they would light him to his cham- but, calming himself, he remember. part ber. He acquiesced: he was very ed that they were women and he a
tired.
strange man in the house. Yes; it The gir led the way, he followed was easily explained.
He walked nervously towards the and the old woman hobbled in the roar. They reached the great hall bed. Half-way there he stopped,! and nacended a wide staircase. As startled, and awung round. As he they went something fell from, the did so, his eyes encountered those of old woman's pocket. He turned the woman In the
olltely, to pack it up, but she was Heavens! He knew her now.
picture. She too quick for him, as she hurriedly had the face of a wolf! !" · grabbed the small object and hid it! He was trembling from head to away. He only caught a momen-foot as he set the candle on the floor. The old woman was so intent on tary glance, but he could have His hand struck against something. her labour that she did not notice aworn that it was a roll of bank- He stooped and picked it up. A their approach; and he was wonder notes. The damp walls reflected button-a leathern button from his ing idly what manner of plant that the light of the candles. The bare jacket. He smiled feebly. deep trench wIB to receive when boards creaked beneath their feet. would give it to the little girl in the Gertrud kicked against a stone and; At last Gertrud atopped bofore a morning. She had admired his hor grandmother looked up.
door and opened it. She signed to buttons. Just as the young girl had at him to enter. The old woman fol- He tried tracted him so the old woman
to smile again; and relawed him, and pointing to a great began to undress. Then it was pelled him. She was a lean and four-poster bed with 0 heavy almost a cream that escaped him:) wrinkled hag, bowed down with canopy, hoped that he would sleep With frantic eyes and fingers he ran |years; and with the horrid well. She apologised for the lack over the tale of his buttons. Not leering face of a witch. It seemed of furniture-but what would you?jone was missing: but the button be hard to believe that relationship The terrible war! "Good night, held in his hand was his brother's! existed between her and the radiant Herr Traveller!" child on his arm.
The candle spluttered and wont
He was duly presented.
Hei
It
Gertrud gave him a provocative out. A moment of terrible darkness The smile, and the door akut. Left-darkness that could be folt. old beldam was effusive in her alone, he raised the candle to take seemed that a dozen people were in thanks. She trembled to think stock of his surroundings.
the room-entering to kill him? He what might have happened to her
By the feeble light he saw a dark cowered away into a far corner and grandchild if he had not found her.oak-panelled room, which had one stood there trembling, jul. There were wolves in the forest at square window heavily barred. In night-yes, and other things tool the very centre stood the enormous his own! Suddenly he became He heard breathing; but it was She crossed herself devoutly.
bed, and that was the sole piece of aware that the wall behind him was He murmured that it was no furniture. The boards of the floor sliding away beneath his touch. He 8th Feb. thing: then remembering his mis- were bare. On the wall facing the must have touched a hid len spring. sion, asked if a traveller dressed foot of the bed was an old oil paint. He felt behind him with both hands. much as himself and resembling ing. He approached and examined The next moment he drew them out him in features had passed that way it. It represented a woman either yesterday or the day previ- the prime of life: a-woman with the What they touched was icy cold!
past as if they had touched, hot iron,.. 28th Jan. ong. The answer of both the wo face of a witch, and yet a face that
The moon came out from hiding, men was negative.
Then he asked if they could show was remarkably like that of the girl and filled the room with her pale downstairs. Her features seemed light. He turned very cautiously. him the road to Satz. It was neses at once to attract and repel him. and looked into the recess. Bary that he should push on there
at once. They looked troubled.
Satz was many, many kilometres,
4th Feb.thay said they did not know how!
many or in which direction It lay. There were no clear paths in this part of the forest. No; he must Red Fob,rest the night in the Schloss, where 18th Feb. he would be their honoured guest,
this To emphasise
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old woman flaahed her yellow tusks 30th Janat him amiably.
He paused irresolute. Twilight 7th Feb. Was passing rapidly. The garden was darkening fast. He looked at the great hole in the earth that the 20th Jan. old bag had been digging., He thought that it resembled a grave. 26th Jan Shuddering a little, he replied that
he would accept their hospitality,
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