ng you see as you leave your room will be I."

[Illustration: Orthon's last appearance]

'"It is enough," spoke the Sieur de Corasse; "and now go, for I fain
would sleep."

'So Orthon went; and when it was the third hour next morning[28] the
Sieur de Corasse rose and dressed as was his custom, and, leaving his
chamber, came out into a gallery that looked into the central court of
the castle. He glanced down, and the first thing he saw was a sow,
larger than any he had ever beheld, but so thin that it seemed nothing
but skin and bone. The Sieur de Corasse was troubled at the sight of the
pig, and said to his servants: "Set on the dogs, and let them chase out
that sow."

'The varlets departed and loosened the dogs, and urged them to attack
the sow, which uttered a great cry and looked at the Sieur de Corasse,
who stood leaning against one of the posts of his chamber. They saw her
no more, for she vanished, and no man could tell whither she had gone.

'Then the Sieur de Corasse entered into his room, pondering deeply, for
he remembered the words of Orthon and said to himself: "I fear me that I
have seen my messenger. I repent me that I have set my dogs upon him,
and the more that perhaps he will never visit me again, for he has told
me, not once but many times, that if I angered him he would depart from
me."

'And in this he said well; for Orthon came no more to the castle of
Corasse, and in less than a year its lord himself was dead.'

FOOTNOTE:

[28] Six o'clock.

HOW GUSTAVUS VASA WON HIS KINGDOM

NEARLY four hundred years ago, on May 12, 1496, Gustavus Vasa was born
in an old house in Sweden. His father was a noble of a well-known
Swedish family, and his mother could claim as her sister one of the
bravest and most unfortunate women of her time. Now, it was the custom
in those days that both boys and girls should be sent when very young to
the house of some great lord to be taught their duties as pages or
ladies-in-waiting, and to be trained in all sorts of accomplishments. So
when Gustavus Vasa had reached the age of six or seven, he was taken
away from all his brothers and sisters and placed in the household of
his uncle by marriage, whose name was Sten Sture. At that time Sweden
had had no king of her own for a hundred years, when the kingdom had
become united with Norway and Denmark in the reign of Queen Margaret by
a treaty that is known in history as the Union of Calmar (1397). As long
as Quee