The sword clanked loudly as the boy was led away , but the child said nothing , though he was very unhappy at being treated so badly when he had done nothing . However , the servants were very kind to him , and their children brought him fruit and all sorts of nice things , and he soon grew merry again , and lived amongst them for many years till his seventeenth birthday . Meanwhile the two eldest princesses had become women , and had married two powerful kings who ruled over great countries across the sea . The youngest one was old enough to be married too , but she was very particular , and turned up her nose at all the young princes who had sought her hand . One day she was sitting in the palace feeling rather dull and lonely , and suddenly she began to wonder what the servants were doing , and whether it was not more amusing down in their quarters . The king was at his council and the queen was ill in bed , so there was no one to stop the princess , and she hastily ran across the gardens to the houses where the servants lived . Outside she noticed a youth who was handsomer than any prince she had ever seen , and in a moment she knew him to be the little boy she had once played with . ` Tell me your secret and I will marry you , ' she said to him ; but the boy only gave her the beating he had promised her long ago , when she asked him the same question . The girl was very angry , besides being hurt , and ran home to complain to her father . ` If he had a thousand souls , I would kill them all , ' swore the king . That very day a gallows was built outside the town , and all the people crowded round to see the execution of the young man who had dared to beat the king 's daughter . The prisoner , with his hands tied behind his back , was brought out by the hangman , and amidst dead silence his sentence was being read by the judge when suddenly the sword clanked against his side . Instantly a great noise was heard and a golden coach rumbled over the stones , with a white flag waving out of the window . It stopped underneath the gallows , and from it stepped the king of the Magyars , who begged that the life of the boy might be spared . ` Sir , he has beaten my daughter , who only asked him to tell her his secret . I can not pardon that , ' answered the princess 's father . ` Give him to me , I 'm sure he will tell me the secret ; or , if not , I have a daughter who is like the Morning Star , and he is sure to tell it to her . ' The sword clanked for the third time , and the king said angrily : ` Well , if you want him so much you can have him ; only never let me see his face again . ' And he made a sign to the hangman . The bandage was removed from the young man 's eyes , and the cords from his wrists , and he took his seat in the golden coach beside the king of the Magyars .
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