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After threading the narrow pathway for half-a-mile or so, they reached

a sudden bend of the little river, where the valley broadened out

sorassy, velvet meadow, at the

further corner of which stood the ruins of the old parish church,

lately discarded for the new chapel of ease built on the hillside above

the shore

"How black the ruins look in that corner," said Cardo

"Yes, and what is that white thing in the ?" said Val a little nearer to her co out into the ht"

"Well, indeed, so it is Fro of the shore I shall be turning up to Dinas"

"And I suppose I et to

Brynderyn," said Cardo "Well, I have never enjoyed a walk fro for you at hoirl, and her laugh was not without a

little trace of bitterness; "who is there to wait for me? No one,

indeed, since ht say,

'Where is Valh," she continued, "safe under the cruht it in the Mwntroyd 'Tis a funny nas, who settled in Caer Madoc long ago"

"Oh! I would like to hear about that! Will you tell ain?"

"Indeed I will," said Cardo eagerly; "but ill that be? I have

been wondering all the evening how it is I have never seen you before"

They had now reached the open beach, where the Berwen, after its

chequered career, subsided quietly through the sand and pebbles into