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rectly, and never moved after. The other he hit in the 

 shoulder, and broke his arm, so that it was obliged to be 

 taken off. At first he thought he had killed two, for 

 the ball knocked both over at once; but K — , you 

 know, after the second shot, made off as fast as he could, 

 for he could not tell what the others might do, and hav- 

 ing: fired both barrels he could not defend himself. But 

 only think what odds — one against three- and- twenty ! 

 He must have been a brave fellow, must he not ? " 



" I suppose they never kneAV who it was fired at them ? 

 Of course K — never said a word." 



"Not a syllable: no, they never found it out. The 

 fellow who was shot was the son of a rich peasant near 

 Schlier See, — the only son too. The same night that 

 it happened his parents heard some one knocking at the 

 window, and a man, in a voice quite unknown to them, 

 said that if they would go up to the Geidauer Eibel Spitz 

 they would find their son ; and next day they went, and 

 there thev found him, sure enough, lying dead." 



