And therewith he woke up crying out, and drew forth his sword. But when he was fully awakened, he was ashamed, and went into the hall, and sat in his high-seat, and strove to think out of his troubled mind; but for all he might do, he fell asleep again; and again in the hall he dreamed as he had dreamed in the garden: and when he awoke from his dream he had no thought in his head but how he might the speediest come to the house of Lord Richard the Lean, and look to the matter of his lord’s son and see him with his eyes, and, if it might be, take some measure with the threat which lay in the lad’s life. Nought he tarried, but set off in an hour’s time with no more company than four men-at-arms and an old squire of his, who was wont to do his bidding without question, whether it were good or
