"I think that the matter of the land of Tregoz has saved you, for I seem to see in this thrall one of his men who hates him and will thwart his plans.

There are yet men who will carry out what he planned ere he died.

Now I am glad that we soon shall be gone from hence, and that is the first time that I have been ready to leave Glastonbury." Now I will say that when Herewald's messenger came back from Norton it was even as we thought.

Jago had no knowledge of the Welsh girl, or her sending.

But Mara was gone a fortnight or more since, for Gerent had sent her father for safer keeping to the terrible old castle of Tintagel on the wild shore, and she had followed to be as near him as she might.