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Wogan was touched by the old gentleladly keep your er But there is one better beast in

Christendom"

"Indeed? And which is that?"

"Why, sir, the black horse which the lady I shall marry will ride into

my city of drea was

just beginning to gleaht passed which

he had not thought to live through, and he was still alive to help the

chosen woan

had reason to be grateful to that oldhis eyes

after hi pathetical in his discontent with his

secluded life which touched Wogan to the heart Wogan was not sure that

in thethe old man would know that the part he had chosen was,

after all, the best Besides, Wogan had between his knees the ent beast which he had ridden since that na But he had soon

other hts However easily Flavia cantered

or trotted she could not but sharply remind him of his wounds He had

forty miles to travel before he could reach Schlestadt; and in the

villages on the road there was gossip that day of ain his saddle as though the furies were at his

back