How it was is all told in the story; and he goes to shoot for a prize at the Castle of Adolf the Duke of Cleeves.

On his way he shoots a raven marvellously,--almost as marvellously as did Robin Hood the twig in Ivanhoe.

Then one of his companions is married, or nearly married, to the mysterious "Lady of Windeck,"-- would have been married but for Otto, and that the bishop and dean, who were dragged up from their long-ago graves to perform the ghostly ceremony, were prevented by the ill-timed mirth of a certain old canon of the church named Schidnischmidt.

The reader has to read the name out long before he recognises an old friend.
But this of the Lady of Windeck is an episode.
How at the shooting-match, which of course ensued, Otto shot for and won the heart of a fair lady, the duke's daughter, need not be told here, nor how he quarrelled with the Rowski of Donnerblitz,--the hideous and sulky, but rich and powerful, nobleman who had come to take the hand, whether he could win the heart or not, of the daughter of the duke.

It is all arranged according to the proper and romantic order.