only wizards and witches—that a rope, or a strap even, on which a man has hanged himself gives luck in all things; but I did not take the strap from Siegfried's neck because for you I expect happiness, not from enchantment, but from the power of the Lord Jesus."

Yagenka made no answer at the moment, and only after a while, when she had sighed a number of times, did she say, as if to herself,—

"Ei! My happiness is behind, not before me!"