CHAPTER XII. 



GUSTAVUS' RESOLVES HE DEPABTS FOR DALECARLIA HE IS ROBBED BY HIS 

 ATTENDANT RECOGNISED NEARLY DROWNED BETRAYED WOMAN HIS 

 GUARDIAN ANGEL MEETS WITH AN OLD FRIEND PUBLICLY DENOUNCED 

 AGAIN SAVED BY A WOMAN WOUNDED HIDES IN A CAVE ADDRESS 

 TO THE PEOPLE ONCE MORE SAVED BY WOMAN'S WIT AGAIN HARANGUES 

 THE PEOPLE HIS ORATION ITS EFFECT ON THE MULTITUDE DEPARTS 

 IN DESPAIR FINDS ADHERENTS RETURNS SUMMARY OF HIS AFTER- 

 LIFE END OF CHRISTIAN FATE OF TROLLE ANCIENT MANNERS AND 

 CUSTOMS SAVAGE GAMES THE DUEL. 



BUT enough for the present of this treacherous and san- 

 guinary despot. Let us return to Gustavus, who was left 

 at Rafsnas, an estate of his father's, near Mariefred. 



One day while hunting in the vicinity of this place, he 

 unexpectedly met the faithful steward of his brother-in-law, 

 Joakim Brahe, who 'had followed his master to Court. 

 The old man on seeing the knight burst into tears; and 

 on being questioned as to the cause of his emotion, he, 

 with a broken voice, told of the never-to-be-forgotten 

 "Blod-bad," in which Gustavus' own father and brother- 



