"
"He was not so far wrong in deeming ONE of the lads near of kin to
the holy ones," said Christina, softly.
And Ebbo briefly narrated the adventure, when it evidently appeared
that his having led at least one foray gave his father for the first
time a fellow-feeling for him, and a sense that he was one of the
true old stock; but, when he heard of the release, he growled, "So!
How would a lad have fared who so acted in my time? My poor old
mother! She must have been changed indeed not to have scourged him
till he had no strength to cry out."
"He was my prisoner!" said Ebbo, in his old defiant tone; "I had the
right."
"Ah, well! the Junker has always been master here, and I never!" said
the elder knight, looking round rather piteously; and Ebbo, with a
sudden movement, exclaimed, "Nay, sir, you are the only lord and
master, and I stand ready to be the first to obey you."
"You! A fine young book-learned scholar, already knighted, and with
all these Wildschloss lands too!" said Sir Eberhard, gazing with a
strange puzzled look at the delicate but spirited features of this
strange perplexing son.
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