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FAIRY TALES 217
"Over in that cliff a terrible ogre lives/ she
said. "He steals away every bride just as soon
as she is married. And no one can kill him;
for he keeps his soul hidden away, no one knows
where. To-morrow he will take our princess
away, and we shall never see her again, for she
will be a prisoner of the terrible ogre."
The next day the royal wedding took place,
and the beautiful princess was spirited away
by the ogre, just as the two old women had said
she would be. The prince went to the king and
said:
"If
you will give me your youngest daughter
for my wife, I can promise you that I will de
stroy the terrible ogre."
The king wished to wait until the ogre had
been killed, but the prince said:
the "No, wedding must take place first."
The king was so anxious to have the ogre de
stroyed, that he said the ceremony might take
place at once.
The prince warned the princess that she
would be carried away by the ogre just as her
sister had been, but that he would rescue her
so she should have no fear. Then the prin
cess was willing to marry the prince.
The ceremony took place at once, and no
sooner was it over than the princess was drawn
away, by invisible hands, and in an instant she
had become invisible too.