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Rh I think you made a few remarks to me on that occasion, Tell—a few chatty remarks? Eh, Tell?”

“Very possibly, your Excellency.”

“You were hardly polite, Tell.”

“If I offended you I am sorry."

“I am glad to hear it, Tell. I think you will he even sorrier before long. So you’ve been ill-treating my soldiers, eh?”

“It was not I who touched them.”

“Oh, so you didn’t touch them? Ah! But you deﬁed my power by refusing to bow down to the hat. I set up that hat to prove the people's loyalty. I am afraid you are not loyal, Tell.”

“I was a little thoughtless, not disloyal. I passed the hat without thinking.”

“You should always think, Tell. It is very dangerous not to do so. And I suppose that you shot your arrow through the hat without thinking?”