Burning with rage, he quitted the hut and said, meaningly to the woman: 'You shall be mine nevertheless!' Mariora came to me next day, full of despair, telling me the whole story, and asking me whether she ought to tell her husband.

I advised her to keep the secret in her own bosom and to close her door against Fatia Negra.

Oh, I know the fellow! It is good to guard against him but it is not advisable to scratch him.

He is no ordinary man.

And now putting together all this with the confession of the Dupe Piatra milk-woman, I have a strong suspicion that Fatia Negra wants to poison the herdsman's bear." "I will not allow it," interrupted the baroness emphatically.
"We shall scarcely be able to prevent it, my lady, for how can we warn the dwellers in the mountain hut of their danger?
It is of no use sending a letter for they cannot read.