“It may be she is not with them.”
“I beg your pardon, sir!… If they had recaptured her from the robbers, it would have been for no other motive than for ransom. The robbers, before that happened could neither write a letter nor imitate the signature of the lord of Spychow, nor send an honorable messenger.”
“That is true; but what do the Knights of the Cross want her for?”
“Revenge on Jurand’s race. They prefer vengeance to mead and wine; and if they want a pretext, they have one. The lord of Spychow was terrible to them, and his last deed completely finished them…. My master, I also heard, had lifted up his hand against Lichtenstein; he killed Rotgier….God helped me, too, to shatter that dog-brother’s arm. Wait, I pray, let us consider. There were four of them to be exterminated; now ha
