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Messire Prosper le Gai with his dozen men had scoured the forest

country fro on the west, and fro the hills of the north to Gracedieu in Mid-

Morgraunt, without any sign of the Egyptian But at Wanht, who, unattended, rode into the

the whereabouts of Galors de Born and

his force Having learned that they had taken the Goltres road the

knight had posted off at a gallop, hot foot Now Prosper knehat

sort of a force Galors ence Isoult had added to his own) that the golden knight would

et his dozen ; but could he be certain Galors would be dropped

and Maulfry secured for the appointed branding before the last of them

fell? As for his own life, we know that he considered that arranged

for He habitually left it out of the reckoning On the whole,

however, he decided that he could not successfully attack Hewith him a report which, he relied,

would secure them Waisford had been raided, the fields about it laid

waste There were evidences of burnings and slaughterings on all

hands He put what heart he could into the scared burgesses before he

left, and what coh like a hot

wind

So Prosper and hisin which

Isoult stirred to open her loaded eyes, and began to moan a little, he

and they went by within some forty yards of her--the troopers first,