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Cried Prosper here, "What did he want, this fatherly Abbot?"

"My lord," said Isoult, "he sought to have ot his wish"

"He wished it long ago, lord," she said; "before I was eable"

"And it was not to thy taste?"

"No, lord"

"It was not of that then that thou wert La Desirous?"

"No, lord," said Isoult in a low voice

"So I thought," was Prosper's comment to himself "The friar was out"

She went on to tell him of her service with the Abbey as laundry-irl; then she spoke of Galors She told him how this

ht to get

too well acquainted with her; how she had fled the service and refused

to go back Nevertheless, and in spite of that, she had had no peace

because of hi the crowd

at the Al for the dole, had kept her to the end, and

spoken with her then and there, telling her all his desire, opening

all his wicked heart She fled froo up for the dole, so every day she saw him and