KING MATTHIAS AND THE BEGGAR BOY. "Come here, gossip Jew; there is nothing to fear." Page 66. King Matthias AND THE BEGGAR BOY King Matthias AND THE BEGGAR BOY ADAPTED FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF BARON NICHOLAS JÓSIKA BYSELINA GAYE SELINA GAYE Author of "Ilka: The Captive Maiden," "Dickie Winton," &c. &c. T. NELSON AND SONS London, Edinburgh, and New York 1902 CONTENTS. [Pg 9] [Pg 9] KING MATTHIAS AND THE BEGGAR BOY. CHAPTER I. MR. SAMSON'S CASTLE. MR. SAMSON'S CASTLE. Towards the close of a gloomy day in autumn, a very dusty traveller was riding quietly up to a castle which stood perched on a height in one of the northern counties of Hungary. A very extraordinary-looking castle it was, if it was a castle at all, which one might be inclined to doubt; for it looked more like a square block hewn by giants out of the ribs of the mountain, and left to itself for centuries, until its walls had become mouldy and moss-grown. One thing which gave it an odd appearance was that, as far as could be seen, it had no roof;
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