“You crazy man, what are you doing?” said a deep, threatening voice; “you are attacking an envoy, you are insulting the king!”
Zbyszko glanced around and recognized the same gigantic man, whom he had taken for Walgierz, and who had frightened the princess and her court.
“Let me go against the German! Who are you?” he cried, seizing his axe.
“Away with the axe! for God’s sake! Away with the axe, I say! I will throw you from your horse!” shouted the stranger more threateningly. “You have offended the majesty of the king and you will be punished.”
Then he turned toward the soldiers who were riding behind the Knight of the Cross.
“Come here!”
“At this time Macko appeared and his face looked threatening. He understood that Zbyszko had acted like a madman and that the consequences of this
