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 134 and cut out his eyes with a knife. At a certain hour in the night the Vilas came there to bathe, and they began to talk among themselves how the king's daughter had been healed. "Some one must have overheard us," they said, "when we were talking of how she could be healed with the water we had bathed in. Perhaps even now some one is listening to us. Come and let us see."

And when, as they looked about them, they came under the fir-tree, and discovered the man who had come there to seek his fortune, and who had always said that Wrong was better than Right, they seized him, and tore him into four pieces. And this is how Wrong came to the help of the unjust.