How she panted along! How she ran, the faithful old dame! She was just
in time to see the Princess on the dog's back disappear into a large
house.
"I shall mark the house, so that I may know it in the morning," she
thought. And she took a piece of white chalk and made a great white
cross on the door.
Then she walked home and slept.
Soon afterwards the dog carried the Princess back to the copper
palace, and noticed the great white cross on the door of the hotel
where his master lived.
And what do you think he did? Oh, he was a wise dog. He took a piece
of chalk, and he put a great white cross on every door in the town.
Early next morning the King and Queen and all the lords and ladies of
the court were astir. They had heard the old dame's story, and were
going to see the house with the great white cross.
They had scarcely started, when the King's eyes fell on a great white
cross! "Here it is," cried the King eagerly.
"What nonsense you talk, my dear! it is here," said the Queen, for
almost at the same moment she too had seen a door with a great white
cross.
Then all the lords and ladies cried: "It is here, it is here," as
one after another they saw doors marked with great white crosses.
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