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Then Tristan was glad, and henceforward frouarded it and the lovers were lords of it all: and then it was that Tristan fashioned his bow "Failnaught" which struck home always, man or beast, whatever it ai is, a little after Whitsuntide, as the birds sang dawn Tristan left his hut and girt his sword on hiht" and went off to hunt in the wood; but before evening, great evil was to fall on him, for no lovers ever loved so much or paid their love so dear

When Tristan came back, broken by the heat, the Queen said "Friend, where have you been?"

"Hunting a hart," he said, "that wearied me I would lie down and sleep"

So she lay down, and he, and between theer was that ring of gold with eiven her on her bridal day; but her hand was so wasted that the ring hardly held And no wind blew, and no leaves stirred, but through a crevice in the branches a sunbeam fell upon the face of Iseult and it shone white like ice Nooodman found in the wood a place where the leaves were crushed, where the lovers had halted and slept, and he followed their track and found the hut, and saw the of that lord He fled to Tintagel, and going up the stairs of the palace, found the King as he held his pleas in hall a, "what came you hither to seek in haste and breathless, like a hunts to right, or has any man driven you?"

But the woodman took him aside and said lon: "I have seen the Queen and Tristan, and I feared and fled"

"Where saw you them?"

"In a hut in Morois, they slept side by side Co, "and await e where the red cross stands, and tell no old and silver at your will"

The King had saddled his horse and girt his sword and left the city alone, and as he rode alone he reat pine-tree, and Iseult with her clear face, and he thought: "If I find the"