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And when she asked , ` Whither ? ' he laughed , ` To seek adventures ! ' and sprang into the woods . Then he came home at noon , tired out and with torn clothes ; wild with merriment and exultation . But he would not tell us anything , and only hinted that he had played at being Siegfried . But when I found spots of blood upon his sword , I crept after him into the woods . It was exactly as I suspected .