I go there, that thou art starving thyself to feed him!”
“No, no, Gysbert!” she cried in genuine alarm, “thou must not do that! It would grieve him unto death, for I have told him that we have plenty.”
“Ah! does that worry thee? Then if thou wilt do something to please me, I promise not to tell him.”
“Yes, yes,” said Jacqueline eagerly. “Anything, Gysbert, will I do if thou wilt only keep that secret!” The boy did not answer, but running to the wall of the fortress, lifted a good-sized stone and took from the hollow underneath something which he brought to his sister. It was the legs and body of a wild rabbit which had been prepared and cooked evidently before an open fire.
“Why, Gysbert!” exclaimed Jacqueline in astonishment. “Where didst thou get this?”
