ll them about you! I shall tell them that you are the son of a King of
Arabia--no less. They will believe me because you have brought me such a
treasure! I suppose there is nothing more wonderful than this rose!"

Then Flann told her about the other wonderful thing he had seen--the
Comb of Magnificence. "A King's daughter should have such a treasure,"
said Flame-of-Wine. "Oh, how jealous I should be if someone brought the
Comb of Magnificence to either of my two sisters--to Bloom-of-Youth
or Breast-of-Light. I should think then that this rose was not such a
treasure after all."

When he was leaving the orchard she plucked a flower and gave it to him.
"Come and walk in the orchard with me to-morrow," she said.

"Surely I will come," said Flann.

"Bring the Comb of Magnificence to me too," said she. "I could not be
proud of this rose, and I could not love you so well for bringing it
to me if I thought that any other maiden had the Comb of Magnificence.
Bring it to me, Flann."

"I will bring it to you," said Flann.

VI

He was at the gate of the town when the King of Ireland's Son rode back
on the Slight Red Steed. The King's Son dismounted, put his arm about
Flann and told him that he now had the whole of the Unique Tale. They
sat before Mogue's tent, and the King's Son told Flann the whole of the
story he had searched for--how a King traveling through the mist had
come to where Druids and the Maid of the Green Mantle lived, how the
King was enchanted, and how the maiden Sheen released him from the
enchantment. He told him, too, how the Enchanter was changed into a
wolf, and how the wolf carried away Sheen's child. "And the Unique Tale
is in part your own history, Flann," said the King of Ireland's Son,
"for the child that was left with the Hags of the Long Teeth was no one
else than yourself, for you, Flann, have on your breast the stars that
denote the Son of a King."

"It is so, it is so," said Flann, "and I will find out what King and
Queen were my father and my mother."

"Go to the Hags of the Long Teeth and force them to tell you," said the
King's Son.

"I will do that," said Flann, but in his own mind he said, "I will first
bring the Comb of Magnificence to Flame-of-Wine, and I will tell her
that I will have to be away for so many years with Mogue and I shall ask
her to remember me until I come back to her. Then I shall go to the Hags
of the Long Teeth and force them to tell me what King and Queen