"
"There is no reason to apprehend treason, Heinz, yet to be on our
guard can do no harm."
"Nay, lady, I could look to the gear for the oubliette if you would
speak the word."
"For heaven's sake, no, Heinz. This man has come hither trusting to
our honour, and you could not do your lord a greater wrong, nor one
that he could less pardon, than by any attempt on our guest."
"Would that he had never eaten our bread!" muttered Heinz. "Vipers
be they all, and who knows what may come next?"
"Watch, watch, Heinz; that is all," implored Christina, "and, above
all, not a word to any one else."
And Christina dismissed the man-at-arms gruff and sullen, and herself
retired ill at ease between fears of, and for, the unwelcome guest
whose strange powers of fascination had rendered her, in his absence,
doubly distrustful.
CHAPTER XXI: RITTER THEURDANK
The snow fell all night without ceasing, and was still falling on the
morrow, when the guest explained his desire of paying a short visit
to the young Baron, and then taking his departure.
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