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 SAGITTARIUS, THE ARCHER

HE little lord of Wilhelmsburg was nine years old. He stood at a window of the great castle where he and his mother had been left while his father followed the Emperor Frederick to the Crusade, and looked longingly out into the green forest. He wanted to be out there with his new bow and arrows.

At a table heaped with heavy books sat a grave-faced man in a black robe, reading.

The boy came up to him.

"Father Johann!" he said impatiently, 269