worthy for the search? For that you must be before any pledge
suffices."

Silent and thoughtful the men found each his seat. And when all had
been seated, Arthur, King, arose.

"Wouldst that I felt myself worthy. Yet from this day shall I strive
to the uttermost for the time when I shall feel that I am."

And throughout the hall came answering vows: "So shall we all." Within
his heart, Allan, the youth, felt a strange radiancy, as he too made
this vow, "So shall I."




CHAPTER SIX

Yosalinde


Now came Pentecost and brought with it to King Arthur's Tournament
brave knights from everywhere. Distant Normandy, the far shores of
Ireland, sent each the flower of its knighthood. Scotland's king was
there, the brave Cadoris, to answer the challenge of the King of
Northgalis who was also present. Ban, King of Northumberland, had
come. Sir Palomides came too, and it was he who was declared, by many
to be the bravest and the most skillful of all of Britain's knights.
Yet there were equal number and more who held the same for both Sir
Launcelot and for Sir Tristram. Sir Lauvecor, leading a hundred