“Whenever they opened their mouths, they said that von Bergow must be free. As God is in Heaven they undoubtedly captured the girl, in order to liberate von Bergow.”
“Hence they will return her,” said the prince.
“But it would be better to know where she is,” replied the knight of Dlugolas. “But suppose the master asks: ‘Whom shall I order to return her?’ what shall we say then?”
“Where is she?” said Jurand, in a hollow voice. “They certainly are not keeping her on the border, for fear that I might recover her, but they have taken her somewhere to a far secret hold or to the sea.”
But Zbyszko said: “I will find and recover her.”
The prince now suddenly burst out with suppressed anger: “Villains carried her off from my court, disgracing me as well, and this shall not be forgiven as lon
