What is stirring yonder in the linden ?" The men looked up and perceived Adrian, who was swaying in the top of the tree, as a concealed listener.

"The boy must be everywhere," exclaimed Peter.

"Come down, saucy lad.

You appear at a convenient time." The boy clung to a limb with his hands, let himself drop to the ground and stood before his father with a penitent face, which he knew how to assume when occasion required.

The burgomaster uttered no further words of reproof, but bade him go home and tell his mother, that he saw no possibility of getting Belotti through the Spanish lines in safety, and also that Father Damianus had promised to call on the young lady in the course of the day.
"Hurry, Adrian, and you, constables, keep all unbidden persons away from these trees, for any place where an oath is taken becomes sacred ground--The clergymen have seated themselves yonder near the target.
They have the precedence.