A few hours , more or less , ca n't make any difference . ' The queen begged him to have patience till the morning . When they had waited so long , they could surely wait a single day more . But the king was quite unreasonable . ` No nonsense , ' said he ; ` she is just as much mine as yours , and I will see her , ' and with that he went straight up to her room . He burst the door open , and pushed aside the nurse , who tried to stop him , and there he saw his daughter . She was the loveliest young princess , red and white , like milk and blood , with clear blue eyes and golden hair , but right in the middle of her forehead there was a little tuft of brown hair . The princess went to meet her father , fell on his neck and kissed him , but with that she said , ' O father , father ! what have you done now ? to-morrow I must die , and you must choose one of three things : either the land must be smitten with the black pestilence , or you must have a long and bloody war , or you must as soon as I am dead , lay me in a plain wooden chest , and set it in the church , and for a whole year place a sentinel beside it every night . ' The king was frightened indeed , and thought she was raving , but in order to please her , he said , ` Well , of these three things I shall choose the last ; if you die , I shall lay you at once in a plain wooden chest , and have it set in the church , and every night I shall place a sentinel beside it . But you shall not die , even if you are ill now . ' He immediately summoned all the best doctors in the country , and they came with all their prescriptions and their medicine bottles , but next day the princess was stiff and cold in death . All the doctors could certify to that and they all put their names to this and appended their seals , and then they had done all they could . The king kept his promise . The princess 's body was lain the same day in a plain wooden chest , and set in the chapel of the castle , and on that night and every night after it , a sentinel was posted in the church , to keep watch over the chest . The first morning when they came to let the sentinel out , there was no sentinel there . They thought he had just got frightened and run away , and next evening a new one was posted in the church . In the morning he was also gone . So it went every night .
When they came XXXXX the morning to let the sentinel out , there was no one there , and it was impossible to discover which way he had gone if he had run away .
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