The other had no suspicions of his roguery: so they went out together, and as they were travelling along, the murderers rushed out upon him, bound him, and were going to hang him on a tree.
'Now you shall be paid for your roguery, ' said he; and tied them all three to a rope and took them along with him till he came to a mill and knocked at the window. ' What's the matter'? said the miller.
Then he went to the king, and told him all his brothers' roguery; and they were seized and punished, and he had the princess given to him again; and after the king's death he was heir to his kingdom.