Now so
it is that if we tarry here till night come we wot not what of evil
may betide us, or at the least we do nought. Or if we turn back and
go southward out of the dale we shall be safe indeed; but safe should
we have been at your house, lords, and should have done no less. But
now I shall tell you that, if ye will, lords, I shall guide you to a
pass that goeth out of the head of the dale to our right hands, and
so turneth the flank of the mountains, and cometh out into the
country which lieth about the Red Hold; and meseemeth it is
thitherward that we must seek if we would hear any tidings of the
lady; for there may we lay in ambush and beset the ways that lead up
to the Hold, by which she must have been brought if she hath not been
carried through the air. How say ye, lords? Soothly there is peril
therein; yet meseemeth peril no more than in our abiding another
night in the Black Valley.
Said Arthur: We heed not the peril if there be aught to be done;
wherefore let us be stirring straightway. And so said they all.
Wherefore they gat to horse, and rode up to the very head of the
valley, and the weather was now calm and bright.
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