It was dark--after night--" "Yolanda!" exclaimed Castleman, reproachfully.
"Yes, uncle, I know I ought not to have been there, but I was," said Yolanda.
"Alone with Sir Max after dark ?" asked the astonished burgher.
"Yes, alone with him, after it was _very_ dark," answered Yolanda.

"I had met him several times before." Castleman tried to speak, but Yolanda interrupted him:-- "Uncle, I know and admit the truth of all you would say, so don't say it.

While I was standing very near to Sir Max, uncle, very near, Count Calli came upon us and offered me gross insult.

Sir Max, being unarmed, knocked the fellow down, and in the struggle that ensued Count Calli's arm was broken.

I heard the bone snap, then Calli, swearing vengeance, left us.