The first rider shrugged his shoulders and said: “I know the devil is a brother to you, but there are weapons against the devil.”
“Devil or not, there are no weapons,” answered Horpyna. “If you, my falcon, had looked for a hiding-place through the whole world for your princess, you could not have found a better. No one will pass here after midnight unless with me, and in the glen no living man has yet put foot. If any one wants soothsaying, he waits in front of the glen till I come out. Never fear! Neither Pole nor Tartar will get there, nor any one, any one. The Devil’s Glen is terrible, you will see for yourself.”
“Let it be terrible, but I say that I shall come as often as I like.”
“If you come in the daytime.”
“Whenever I please. And if the devil stands in my road, I’ll seize him b
