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repeated his foul jest in even plainer terms, whereupon Sti
promised that at one more word of the same kind he would
get the pewter cup in his head.
At that moment, Lucie brought her knitting up to the
table to look for a dropped stitch, and the other
Oldenborger availed himself of the chance to catch her round the
waist, force her down on his knee, and imprint a sounding
kiss on her lips.
This bold action fired the fair man, and he put his arm
around Marie Grubbe’s neck.
In the same second, Sti’s goblet hit him in the
forehead with such force and such sureness of aim that he sank
down on the floor with a deep grunt.
The next moment, Sti and the dark man were grappling
in the middle of the floor, while Marie and her maid fled
to a corner.
The drawer jumped up from the goose-bench, bellowed
something out at one door, ran to the other and bolted it
with a two-foot iron bar, just as some one else could be
heard putting the latch on the postern. It was a custom in
the inn to lock all doors as soon as a fight began, so no one
could come from outside and join in the fracas, but this was
the only step for the preservation of peace that the
inn-people took. As soon as the doors were closed, they would
sneak off to bed; for he who has seen nothing can testify
to nothing.
Since neither party to the fight was armed, the affair had
to be settled with bare fists, and Sti and the dark man stood
locked together, wrestling and cursing. They dragged each
other back and forth, turned in slow, tortuous circles, stood
each other up against walls and doors, caught each other’s
arms, wrenched themselves loose, bent and writhed, each
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