SOVEREIGN OF THE MINERAL KINGDOM 59

“you must have known the kind of bread you would have
to break here; your wish has been fulfilled.”

And so it was, for nothing can recall the past. The
wretched girl was obliged henceforth to live underground
with her husband Kovlad, the God of Metals, in his golden
palace. And this because she had set her heart upon nothing
but the possession of gold, and had never wished for any-
thing better.