XII. THE VENGEANCE

This is the district of Soba, in the province of Sagami, the

native land of Terute: how many beautiful and how many sorrowful

thoughts does it recall to their minds!

And here also are Yokoyama and his son, who killed Lord Ogiri

with poison.

So Saburo, the third son, being led to the moor called

Totsuka-no-hara, was there punished.

But Yokoyama Choja, wicked as he had been, was not punished;

because parents, however bad, must be for their children always

like the sun and moon. And hearing this order, Yokoyama repented

very greatly for that which he had done.

Qnio and Oniji, the brothers, were rewarded with many gifts for

having saved the Princess Terute off the coast of Sagami.

Thus those who were good prospered, and the bad were brought to

destruction.

Fortunate and happy, Oguri-Sama and Terute-Hime together returned

to Miako, to dwell in the residence at Nijo, and their union was

beautiful as the blossoming of spring.

_Fortunate! Fortunate!_

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