“You are free to go,” replied the Magistrate Miklic.  “I asked the people to dig the Nicknish field.  They did.  They found the treasure.  Neighbor Nicknish shall be brought to the dungeon to await trial.”

“I shall soon be planting potatoes,” smiled Rudolph Leopold Nickolos Lazare.

And that was exactly what he did the very next day.

An award-winning writer of Czech descent, Evelyn Witter lives in Illinois.  She has
taught creative writing at a local college for more than twenty years.