Someone forgot to pile up the fire before we left and it has burnt itself out ! But it is all right . Let every man jump across , and as he does so cry out `` Hop ! I am here . '' I will go last . Now begin . ' The man who stood nearest jumped across , but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered , for with one swift , silent stroke of the prince 's sword , his head rolled into a corner . Then the young man cried instead , ` Hop ! I am here . ' The second man , hearing the signal , leapt the ditch in confidence , and was met by the same fate , and in a few minutes eleven of the robbers lay dead , and there remained only the captain . Now the captain had wound round his neck the shawl of his lost wife , and the stroke of the prince 's sword fell harmless . Being very cunning , however , he made no resistance , and rolled over as if he were as dead as the other men . Still , the prince was no fool , and wondered if indeed he was as dead as he seemed to be ; but the captain lay so stiff and stark , that at last he was taken in . The prince next dragged the headless bodies into a chamber in the cave , and locked the door . Then he and his mother ransacked the place for some food , and when they had eaten it they lay down and slept in peace . With the dawn they were both awake again , and found that , instead of the cave which they had come to the night before , they now were in a splendid castle , full of beautiful rooms . The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up , bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting . Unfortunately , the queen , like all women , could not bear to think that there was anything which she did not know . So the moment that her son had turned his back , she opened the doors of all the rooms , and peeped in , till she came to the one where the robbers lay . But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint , the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still .
She quickly turned the key in the lock , and ran back XXXXX the chamber she had slept in .
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