When he grew up he would buy an island of the Sultan and forbid any one to approach it. A gunboat should guard his shores. Your Lordship, the slaves would come and tell him, there's a boat aground on the reef; she has struck, the young people in her will perish. Let them perish! he answers. Your Lordship, they are calling for help; we can save them yet and there is a woman in white among them. Save them! he commands in a voice of thunder. Then he meets the children of the Castle again after many years and Victoria throws herself at his feet and thanks him for her rescue. Nothing to thank me for, it was but my duty, he answers; go freely where you will within my domains. And then he has the gates of the palace thrown open to the company and feasts them on golden dishes and three hundred brown slave girls sing and dance the whole night long. But when it is time for the children of the Castle to leave, Victoria cannot go. She throws herself in the dust before him and sobs because she loves him. Let me stay here, thrust me not away, Your Lordship, let me be one of your slaves.... He began to walk quickly across the island, thrilled through with emotion. Very well, he would rescue the Castle children. Who knows, perhaps they had lost their way? Perhaps Victoria had got stuck between two rocks and could not get out? He would only have to reach out his arm to set her free. But the children looked at him in astonishment when he came. Had he left the boat? "I hold you responsible for the boat," said Otto. "I could show you where there are some wild raspberries?" suggested Johannes. Silence among the party. Victoria came to the rescue. "No? Where are they?" But the gentleman from town put temptation aside and said: "We can't bother about that now." Johannes said: "I know where we can find mussels, too." Silence again. "Are there pearls in them?" asked Otto. "Fancy, if there were!" said Victoria. Johannes replied, No, he didn't know about that; but the mussels were a long way out on the white sand; they would have to have the boat and dive for them. That finished that idea, and Otto remarked: "Yes, you look like a diver, don't you?" Johannes began to breathe heavily. "If you like I can go up the rocks there and roll a big stone down into the sea," he said. "What for?" "Oh nothing. But you could watch it." But that proposal was not accepted either and Johannes held his tongue and felt ashamed. Then he went off to look for eggs a long way from the others, in another part of the island. When the whole party came together again down by the boat Johannes had many more eggs than the rest; he carried them carefully in his cap. "How is it that you found so many?" asked Otto. "I know where the nests are," answered Johannes, feeling happy. "Now I'll put them with yours, Victoria." "Stop!" cried Otto. "What are you doing that for?" Everybody looked at him. Otto pointed to his cap and said: "How am I to know that that cap is clean?"