Page:The Enchanted Knights; or The Chronicle of the Three Sisters.djvu/107

Rh heart of the princess, and on the fourth, the court began to speak loudly of the extraordinary phenomenon; the king himself, secretly informed of the event, was highly pleased with his sagacity at finding out the right means of attaining his end. He lost no time in asking Obizza the state of her feelings; it was so little in her power to conceal them, that she was obliged to draw the veil over her face before confessing that the unknown knight had won her heart.

Udo, to the astonishment of the whole court, received his bride Obizza from the hands of the king as a man without a name; but the marriage contract being signed, the father of the lovely bride inquired the name and station of the happy lover, who now without restraint, made himself known. Cruco was highly gratified at the opportunity of repaying, with interest, the injury he had done to the Prince of Rugen. Udo remained at court till the heir to the throne, a splendid boyboy, [sic] was born, whom Cruco received from the hands of his daughter, and then gave his son-in-law leave to depart. As Udo required the demon no longer, he sent him back in the form of a hawk, with the ring in his beak, feeling the utmost gratitude to the demon’s master.