None said aught against it, and Hugh went on: Short is my tale of
the journey: We came to the Isle of Nothing on the morrow's morn of
our departure, and being warned of thee, Birdalone, we abode there
but a little while to rest us from the boat, and went nowhither from
the strand, and so went on our way in a three hours' space.
Thence again we took the water, and came to the Isle of Kings, and
that was in the middle of the night: we beheld the dead long and
heedfully when the morning came, and departed again before noon, and
came to the Isle of Queens a little after nightfall. The next
morning we deemed we needs must go see the images of those ladies,
lest aught might have befell since thou wert there which might be of
import to the Quest, but all was unchanged, and we came away while
the day was yet young.
We made the Isle of the Young and the Old about sunset that day, and
the boy and the girl came down to the strand to behold us and wonder
at us, and we sported with them merrily a while; and then they
brought us to the house of the old man, who received us courteously
and gave us to eat and drink.
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