Text Appearing Before Image: s with golden hair and starson their foreheads were born to Laptitza. And the step-mother, who was watching, took them away, and dug ahole in the corner of the palace, under the windows ofthe emperor, and put them in it, while in their stead sheplaced two little puppies. The emperor came into the palace, and when theytold him the news he went straight to Laptitzas room.No words were needed; he saw with his own eves that «/ Laptitza had not kept the promise she had made at thestrawberry beds, and, though it nearly broke his heart,he must give orders for her punishment. So he went out sadly and told his guards that theempress was to be buried in the earth up to her neck, so 302 THE BOYS WITH THE GOLDEN STARS that everyone might know what would happen to thosewho dared to deceive the emperor. Text Appearing After Image:
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