He had little trouble in discovering the offenders, for the twins were so broken down by the suffering they had been through, that they confessed at once, and told him the whole story, including their horror at the cry of pain, and adding that their mother had now gone to the cottage, to inquire who had been hit.

Then they showed Rolf where they had fired the arrow through the hedge, and to be sure there it was, lying on the ground, in Mrs.Kurd's garden.

The recovery of his treasure put Rolf again in good-humor.

He rushed back to the house, calling out, "Jule, Paula, did you know that the twins shot a child yesterday ?" And so it came about that all six of the children, and Miss Hanenwinkel, besides, stood on the stone steps, on tip-toe with excitement, awaiting the mother's return from the cottage.

The moment she appeared, Hunne called out, "Where was it hit ?" and then each one asked a different question, and all at once: "Is it a child ?" "Is it a boy ?" "How big is it ?" "What is its name ?" "Is it much hurt ?" "Come into the house, first," said the mother, turning a deaf ear to the shower of questions; and when they were clustered about her in the house, she told them about the pale, delicate little maiden, with a bandage upon her arm, so tight that she could scarcely use it.