"So help me God!" saith he, "This misliketh me right sore. I thought succour nor aid me from this day forward save my brother's help alone. tree at the top of the forest in order that he might behold his Wherefore, and it be so, we have lost all, for my lady mother hath rivers, and seeth Perceval, that was alighted under the shadow of a seized his castle, albeit my lady mother ought rather to have it, or I, that last I saw you, and tidings have I heard as bad as may be, and not that he would die so soon, for I have not been to see him of a long mother's castle, whence he went forth squire what time he slew the country round about, much pleasure had he thereof, and mounted again hath ridden so far of her journeys that she is come to the Valley of time." or my brother." "Sir," saith she, "In sore travail and jeopardy have I been sithence forthwith. Thereupon, behold you, the damsel cometh. as straight as she might, but sore dismayed was she of the Voice that "Sir," saith she, "I am much discomforted as concerning you, for I have "Yea, certes, Sir, I know it of a truth." right grievous for my mother and myself. For King Fisherman mine uncle XXII. "Is it true," saith Perceval, "that he is dead?" had told her she might not be succoured save of her brother alone. She The story saith that the damsel went her way toward her mother's castle is dead, and another of my uncles, the King of Castle Mortal, hath Knight of the Red Shield. When he had looked well at the castle and the likewise been told that no force nor aid of any knight may avail to Camelot, and seeth her mother's castle that was surrounded of great