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Maezli

CHAPTER V
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Whenever the young gentlemen from the castle wanted to play a special prank, one of them would take the knight on his shoulders, and the knightly long mantle would be hung over his shoulders so as to cover him down to his high boot-tops.

This figure looked so terrible coming along the terrace that everybody always ran away, even in bright daylight.

Once the two young ladies shrieked loudly when they suddenly saw the fearful knight.

That pleased the young gentlemen more than anything." "Oh, then my mother saw him, too, and knows what he looks like," Kurt exclaimed with a sudden start, for he had been breathlessly listening.
"Certainly, for she was one of the young ladies," Loneli said.
"But now nobody is at the castle except Mr.Trius, and he couldn't have been there," Kurt objected.

"I know that he sneaks about the meadows till late in the evening in order to catch apple-thieves.


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