. Tales of enchantment from Spain . was ill. He hastened to her bedside at once. As soon as she saw him tears poured down her cheeks. I have heard a strange voice in the palace,she said with sobs. Today, as I was ascending thestaircase, I heard a strange, deep voice. The twentyyears are passed. The twenty years are passed, iswhat it said. Why does not the king fulfil his vow?See to it that tomorrow the king brings the princeFernando to me as he has promised. I saw no one,but that strange deep voice is still ringing in my ears!It seems as if my heart will break! The king found the prince in the
. Tales of enchantment from Spain . was ill. He hastened to her bedside at once. As soon as she saw him tears poured down her cheeks. I have heard a strange voice in the palace,she said with sobs. Today, as I was ascending thestaircase, I heard a strange, deep voice. The twentyyears are passed. The twenty years are passed, iswhat it said. Why does not the king fulfil his vow?See to it that tomorrow the king brings the princeFernando to me as he has promised. I saw no one,but that strange deep voice is still ringing in my ears!It seems as if my heart will break! The king found the prince in the palace gardenwith his favorite dogs about him. O father! cried the prince, as he hastened tomeet him, Have you ever made any promise to anyone which you have not fulfilled? Here in the gar-den today I heard a strange deep voice, The twentyyears are passed. The twenty years are passed, iswhat it said. Tell your father, the king, that hemust fulfil his vow. I saw no one in the is all very queer. I never had heard anything. The King returned to the palace with a sad heart. THE PRINCE FERNANDO 97 about your ever having made a vow which you failedto fulfil. Tell me what it can mean. The king, with tears in his eyes, related the wholestory to the prince. You will have to take me to the genie, saidthe prince when he had heard it. You must keepyour promise. The prince squared his shouldersfearlessly like the true prince he was. The next day the king took the prince into thedeep forest where he had met the genie. When Fer-nando had said his sad farewell to his father, thegenie led him into a deep cave. It opened into amagnificent palace, far larger and grander than anypalace which Fernando had ever seen. The wife ofthe genie and his three daughters lived in the genies three daughters were all very beautiful,so beautiful that it was difficult to tell which wasloveliest. The two eldest daughters had the beautyof wicked elves which allure and lead to evil yo
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