Sithence he had
ridden to the Castle of the Quest with the said Prior of St. Austin
of Greenford, and had found Leonard, and had settled all the business
how it was to be done. Thereafter he had returned to Greenford, and
gathered his folk, and got him gone, under the guidance of Habundia's
folk, by castles and thorps and towns the nearest way to the edge of
Evilshaw. And they had come to the forest, and ridden it six days
without mishap; and when they had come to the Oak of Tryst once more,
the way-leaders said that it were well if all they together tarried
not much longer in the forest; wherefore they had brought them to a
fair wood-lawn, and there they encamped, and were there as now. And,
said Hugh, there are they abiding me, and it is in my mind that this
very eve we go, all of us, and meet them there, if ye may truss your
goods in that while; but as to victuals, we have plenty, and it
needeth not. And then to-morrow shall we wend our way as straight as
may be toward the good town of Utterhay.
All they yeasaid it, though in her heart maybe Birdalone had been
fain of abiding a little longer in her own land; but she spake no
word thereof.
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