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And when King Mark had agreed, this dwarf did a vile thing He bought of a baker four farthings' worth of flour, and hid it in the turn of his coat That night, when the King had supped and the men-at-ar as custo said: "Fair nephew, do ive hi, that he may open it: and stay you with him but one day"

And when Tristan said: "I will take it on theadded: "Aye, and before day dawn"

But, as the peers slept all round the King their lord, that night, a ht took Tristan that, before he rode, he knew not for how long, before dawn he would say a last word to the Queen And there was a spear length in the darkness between the's chaht that all slept he rose and scattered the flour silently in the spear length that lay between Tristan and the Queen; but Tristan watched and saw him, and said to himself: "It is to mark my footsteps, but there shall be no ht, when all was dark in the roo went out silently by the door and with hied the spear length and leapt the space between, for his farewell But that day in the hunt a boar had wounded hi, and in this effort the wound bled He did not feel it or see it in the darkness, but the blood dripped upon the couches and the flour strewn between; and outside in the ht the dwarf read the heavens and knehat had been done and he cried: "Enter, h"

Then the King and the dwarf and the four felons ran in with lights and noise, and though Tristan had regained his place there was the blood for witness, and though Iseult feigned sleep, and Perinis too, who lay at Tristan's feet, yet there was the blood for witness And the King looked in silence at the blood where it lay upon the bed and the boards and trampled into the flour

And the four barons held Tristan down upon his bed andher full justice; and they bared and showed the wound whence the blood flowed