In his desperate search for fortune the father was trapped in a snowstorm. While wandering through the forest he came across an abandoned palace where he found food and shelter for the night. In the morning he walked into the garden where he saw the perfect rose for Beaty. On plucking it a hideous Beaust appeared and said that for his thievery the father must die. The father begged for his life and the Beast agreed to let him go if one of his daughters would take his place. However if no daughter would come the father must return to die. The Beast gave him a chest filled with gold and sent him home. This treasure pleased the older daughters. On giving Beauty the rose her father sadly told her what happened at the Beast's palace. Beauty insisted on taking her father's place and so she returned with him to the palace where the father reluctantly left her.