Presently, with a click, a little square wicket that pierced the door was opened, and a woman's face peered out through the iron bars.
The one-eyed Hans whipped off his leathern cap.
"Good day, pretty one," said he, "and hast thou any need of glass beads, ribbons, combs, or trinkets? Here I am come all the way from Gruenstadt, with a pack full of such gay things as thou never laid eyes on before. Here be rings and bracelets and necklaces that might be of pure silver and set with diamonds and rubies, for anything that thy dear one could tell if he saw thee decked in them. And all are so cheap that thou hast only to say, 'I want them,' and they are thine."
The frightened face at the window looked from right to left and from left to right. "Hush," said the girl, and laid her finger upon he
