TWILIGHT LAND

father had written on the walls, and had had these words
painted in in their stead : :

“ All Things are as Man does.”

For a while he was very well satisfied with them, until,
a week after, he was bidden to the wedding of the Queen
of the Golden Mountains; for when he came there who
should the bridegroom be but the beggar whom he had
set adrift in the wooden box a week or so before.

The bridegroom winked at him, but said never a word,
good or ill, for he was willing to let all that had happened
be past and gone. But the king saw how matters stood
as clear as daylight, and when he got back home again he
had the new words that stood on the walls of the room
painted out, and had the old ones painted in in bigger
letters than ever:

“ All Things are as Fate wills.”

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