The young lovers were, of course, dreadfully unhappy, and vowed to be true to one another.

He determined to go away, and tried to persuade her to go with him.

She was frightened, but he was audacious and insisted.

They would go to London, and be married there; he could earn his living, and they would defy the father's curse.

All was arranged; but at the last moment her courage failed, and she confessed all to the tyrant, who set the police on the young man's track, and sent the girl away to relations in Brandenburg.