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'False and fickle one!' said he. 'One indeed came who set thee

free, and he is now near thee again; but how have you used him?

Ought he to have had such treatment from thee?' Then he went out

and sent away the company, and said the wedding was at an end,

for that he was come back to the kingdom. But the princes, peers,

and great men mocked at him. However, he would enter into no

parley with them, but only asked them if they would go in peace

or not. Then they turned upon him and tried to seize him; but he

drew his sword. 'Heads Off!' cried he; and with the word the

traitors' heads fell before him, and Heinel was once more king of

the Golden Mountain.

DOCTOR KNOWALL