No sooner had he started than the girl 's brother , who had wasted all the riches his wife had brought him in recklessness and folly , and was now very poor , chanced to come into the town , and as he passed he heard a man say , ` Do you know that the king 's son has married a woman who has lost one of her hands ? ' On hearing these words the brother stopped and asked , ` Where did he find such a woman ? ' ` In the forest , ' answered the man , and the cruel brother guessed at once it must be his sister . A great rage took possession of his soul as he thought of the girl whom he had tried to ruin being after all so much better off than himself , and he vowed that he would work her ill . Therefore that very afternoon he made his way to the palace and asked to see the king . When he was admitted to his presence , he knelt down and touched the ground with his forehead , and the king bade him stand up and tell wherefore he had come . ` By the kindness of your heart have you been deceived , O king , ' said he . ` Your son has married a girl who has lost a hand . Do you know why she had lost it ? She was a witch , and has wedded three husbands , and each husband she has put to death with her arts . Then the people of the town cut off her hand , and turned her into the forest . And what I say is true , for her town is my town also . ' The king listened , and his face grew dark . Unluckily he had a hasty temper , and did not stop to reason , and , instead of sending to the town , and discovering people who knew his daughter-in-law and could have told him how hard she had worked and how poor she had been , he believed all the brother 's lying words , and made the queen believe them too . Together they took counsel what they should do , and in the end they decided that they also would put her out of the town . But this did not content the brother . ` Kill her , ' he said . ` It is no more than she deserves for daring to marry the king 's son . Then she can do no more hurt to anyone . ' ` We can not kill her , ' answered they ; ` if we did , our son would assuredly kill us .
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