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OF THE MESSAGE BROUGHT BY JAGO, AND A MEETING IN DARTMOOR.
As one may be sure, there was no danger for me at Winchester, and if I had any anxiety at all it was for Owen, who had dangers round him which I did not know.

I had sent him word by that old friend of his, Jago of Norton, how the last warning was justified, and had heard from him that with the imprisonment of Dunwal his last enemies seemed to have been removed or quieted.

So I was more at ease concerning him, and presently rode with Erpwald to Eastdean in the fair May weather to see the beginning of that church which should keep the memory of my father.
And all I will say concerning that is that when I came to visit the old home once more I knew that I had chosen right.

The life of a forest thane was not for me, and Eastdean seemed to have nought of pleasure for me, save in a sort of wonderment in seeing how my dreams had kept so little of aught of the true look of the place.
In them it had grown and grown, as it were, and now I was disappointed with it.