In the first room on the table was the earthenware pitcher full of water; in the second room was the bed covered with a bear skin and in the third room were all the guns and other weapons just as she had seen them before.
Again she waited for a long time for some of the dwellers of this little house to draw near, and again she waited in vain; even by eventide not a human being had approached the hut.
These hut dwellers must be curious folks she thought, they leave everything unlocked, evil disposed people might steal everything.
On the way back she met some charcoal burners and asked them about the lonely little house in the midst of the forest.

Three of the four pretended not to understand: they did not remember ever seeing such a house they said.

The fourth, however, told the lady in reply that in that house dwelt "Dracu."[51] [Footnote 51: The Devil.] This only made Henrietta more than ever curious.

She asked the priest about it and even he was inclined to be evasive.

He evidently either knew nothing about it or was casting about in his mind for some plausible explanation.