t smile swept across Murgh's awful face though that smile was
cold as the winter dawn. Then he turned and slowly walked away toward
the west.

They watched him go till he became but a blot of fantastic colour that
soon vanished on the moorland.

Hugh spoke to Red Eve and said:

"Wife, let us away from this haunted place and take what joy we can. Who
knows when Murgh may return again and make us as are all the others whom
we love!"

"Ay, husband won at last," she answered, "who knows? Yet, after so much
fear and sorrow, first I would rest a while with you."

So hand in hand they went till they, too, grew small and vanished on the
snowy marsh.

But Grey Dick stayed there alone with the dead, and presently spoke
aloud for company.

"The woman has him heart and soul," he said, "as is fitting, and where's
the room between the two for an archer-churl to lodge? Mayhap, after
all, I should have done well to take yonder Murgh for lord when I had
the chance. Man, or god, or ghost, he's a fellow to my liking, and once
he had led me through the Gates no woman would have dared to come to
part us. Well, good-bye, Hugh de Cressi, till you are sick of kisses and
the long shafts begin to fly again, for then you will bethink you of a
certain bow and of him who alone can bend it."

Having spoken thus in his hissing voice, whereof the sound resembled
that of an arrow in its flight, Grey Dick descended into the grave and
trod the earth over Acour's false and handsome face, hiding it from the
sight of men forever.

Then he lifted up the dead Sir Andrew in his strong arms and slowly bore
him thence to burial.

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