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will keep the rain out We shall haveof a prophet"

There was a huge bank of cloud to ard; the wind came uneasily, in

puffs, with a smell of rain Prosper's horse shivered and shook

himself from head to heels

"As I live," cried Prosper suddenly, "there is a light in the house"

In a highthere was certainly a flickering light "Where

there's a light there's a man or a woman Where there's one there is

roo up the shore of the lake he found an old punt

"Saracen," said he to his horse, "I shall take to the water Thou

shalt go thy will this night, andhe unbridled hiot into the punt and pushed out over theabove hi down froate and drove his punt towards it It was open He pushed in,

found a rotting stair, above it a door which was broken away and

hanging by one hinge

"The welcome, withal free, is cold," quoth Prosper, "but we cannot

stand on cereht be well to make sure of my punt" He

manoeuvred it under the stair with some trouble, lashed it fore and

aft, and entered Goltres by the slippery ascent, addressing hiin