enfels 177

The Monk of Heisterbach 182

The Origin of the Seven Mountains 188

The Nightingale Valley at Honnef 190

=Godesberg.= The High Cross at Godesberg 192

=Bonn.= Lord Erich's Pledge 200

The Roman Ghosts 203

=Cologne.= Richmodis of Aducht 208

The Goblins 212

Jan and Griet 216

The Cathedral-Builder of Cologne 220

=Xanten.= Siegfried 231

=Cleve.= Lohengrin 237

=Zuydersea.= Stavoren 244

ST. GOTTHARD

The Petrified Alp

[Illustration: Aus dem Quellgebiet des Rheines--Near the Source of the
Rhine--Au pays du Rhin]

In the region where the Rhine has its source there towered in ancient
times a green Alp. This Alp belonged to an honest peasant, and along
with a neat little house in the valley below formed his only
possession.

The man died suddenly and was deeply mourned by his wife and child.
Some days after an unexpected visitor was announced to the widow. He
was a man who had much pastureland up in that region, but for a long
time his one desire had been to possess the Alp of his neighbour now
deceased, as by it his property would be rounded off to his
satisfaction.

Quickly making his resolution he declared to the dismayed woman that
the Alp belonged to him: her husband had secretly pledged it to him in
return for a loan, after the bad harvest of the previous year. When
the widow angrily accused him of being a liar the man produced a
promissory note, spread it out, and with a hard laugh showed her his
statement was confirmed in black and white. The distressed woman burst
into tears and declared it was impossible that her late husband should
have made a secret transaction of such a nature. The Alp was the sole
inheritance of their son, and never would she willingly surrender it.

"I will pay you compensation for the renunciation of your claim,
although nothing obliges me to do so," declared the visitor with
appa