De Lorche began to question him:
“Sir, you called that beautiful girl the devil’s daughter; why did you call her that?”
Danveld began to relate the story of Zlotorja: how during the restoration of the castle, they captured the prince with the court, and how during that fight Jurandowna’s mother died; how since that time Jurand avenged himself on all the Knights of the Cross. Danveld’s hatred was apparent during the narration, because he also had some personal reasons for hating Jurand. Two years before, during an encounter, he met Jurand; but the mere sight of that dreadful “Boar of Spychow” so terrified him for the first time in his life that he deserted two of his relatives and his retinue, and fled to Szczytno. For this cowardly act the grand marshal of the Order brought a knightly su
