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The feud started in Ulrich's grandfathers time.The two families had a fight between an illegal possession of a neighboring family's land. This fight was between the Gradwitz and Znaeyms
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The forest was somewhere in the Carpathians Mtns. A man stood in the forest on a cold winter night.
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As he stepped around a huge beech he was face to face with Georg. The two enemies stood glaring at each other,
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The storm was ferocious. Before either of them could raise their rifle to shoot each other lihtning struck a tree.
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A fierce shreik of lightning hit a tree. Before they could leap out of the way the tree fell on them.
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Ulrich found himself stretched on the ground one arm pinned beneath him and the other tangled in tree branches. At his side Georg struggled to get free.
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"So you're not killed as u ought to be but you're caught anyway" said Georg "Ho what a jest Ulrich is snared in his stolen forest."
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"We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and i and our foresters,with no cursed interlopers to come between us. Death to you Ulrich Von Gradwitz
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Ulrich reached to his coat pocket for his wine flask. A little left in it he said to Georg "If i throw this to you do you think you can reach it."
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"If my men come first i change my mind i will let you go. Let this feud be over."
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"Lets shout for help" said Ulrich. "Our voices won't carry far but we can try."
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The wolves are coming like shadows in the night. They are going to eat them.