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Gottfried watched and suffered -- each hour more suspicious and uneasy.
In the castle chapel of Montalme stood a narrow-chested saint with peaked beard, -- St. Sebaldus, -- who bore on his wooden forefinger an amethyst ring. With this ring was connected a legend, -- viz., -- that whoever would have the courage to draw it off the finger at midnight and put it on his own -- to him Heaven would grant the fulfilment of his wish, even were it the most presumptuous in the world. But should the one who took off the jewel let it fall from his linger ere returning it on the following night, as in duty bound, to the saint, some terrible misfortune would speedily overtake him.