"Is  this  you?"

"  It  is  I.     But  in  a  wagon,  for  the  Germans  shot  me."

"  What  Germans?  The  war  surely  was  with  Tartars !  I
know  that,  for  I  begged  papa  not  a  little  to  take  me  with
him."

"  There  was  war  with  the  Tartars,  but  we  were  not  at
that  war,  for  earlier  we  were  fighting  in  Lithuania,  I  and
Zbyshko."

"  But  where  is  Zbyshko?  "

"Dost  thou  not  know  that  this  is  Zbyshko?"  asked
Matsko,  with  a  smile.
"  Is  that  Zbyshko?  "  cried  the  girl,  looking  again  at  the
young  knight.
"  Of  course  it  is!  "

"Give  him  thy  lips  for  acquaintance!"  cried  Zyh,
joyously.
Yagenka  turned  briskly  toward  Zbyshko,  but  drew  back
on  a  sudden,  and  covering  her  eyes  with  her  hands  said, —

"  If  I  am  ashamed  ?  "

"  But  we  are  acquainted  from  childhood,"  said  Zbyshko.
