CHAPTER 5 - THE KING OF THIEVES

OLD MARSHELM, THE CAPTAIN OF the guard, was much surprised when he saw the baron’s daughter and her playmates approach her father’s castle escorted by a knight in glittering armor.

To be sure it was a rather small knight, but the horse he led by the bridle was so stately and magnificent in appearance that old Marshelm, who was an excellent judge of horses, at once decided the stranger must be a personage of unusual importance.

As they came nearer the capt