23/36 See, it is written there!" said Mux, placing his picture book on Cornelli's lap and pointing to a splendid colored picture. "Read what is written here," he directed. "Dino once read it aloud to me and then I knew it." Cornelli read aloud: "Agnes orders Rudolph von Warth to be bound to the wheel." "Now you see it," Mux said complacently. She read more eagerly each instant, for it was described so vividly that she had to consume one page after another. "Now look at the goat wagon." "But Mux," Cornelli said eagerly, "it is quite a different Agnes, it is a queen. |