208 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES went out to meet the stranger. The stranger was waiting for them with a cart full of gold as he had promised. Soon the king was has¬ tening home with his money, and the beautiful princess was taken away, no one knew where. Now this cart full of gold did not last the king even as long as the other had. And very soon he was out in the fields again, wondering what he could do. For by this time he could think of nothing but his wine. Again, as before, a stranger stood before him. He was as well dressed and as pleasing as the others. "Will you give me your youngest daughter for my wife?" he asked the king. "Yes," said the king at once, "if you will give me a cart full of gold." "I will," said the stranger, "on one condition. You must promise that you will not ask where I am going to take her. Come to this spot in the morning with your daughter, and I will be here with the cart full of gold." Early the next morning the king hurried out to the field with his youngest daughter, the most beautiful daughter of all. The queen begged of him to leave her tins one daughter; but the king was so eager for gold, with which he could buy wine, that he would not listen to her pleadings. When the king reached the field with his