ger.

But when the Lady Ettarde knew that Sir Pelleas loved her no more,
she wept sorrowfully, and died of her grief.

Then the gentle Lady of the Lake asked Pelleas to come with her to
her own beautiful Lake-land. And as they rode together, her simple
kindness made the knight happy again, and he learned to love the
Lady of the Lake, and they lived together and loved each other all
their lives long.

GARETH AND LYNETTE

Gareth was a little prince. His home was an old grey castle, and
there were great mountains all round the castle. Gareth loved these
mountains and his beautiful home at the foot of them. He had lived
there all his life.

Gareth had no little boys or girls to play with, for there were no
houses near his mountain home.

But Gareth was happy all day long. Sometimes in the bright summer
mornings the streams would call to him. Then he would follow them
up the mountains, till he found the place where the streams ended
in tiny silver threads.

Sometimes the birds and beasts, his woodland friends, would call to
him, and then Gareth would wander about in the forest with them
till evening came. Then he would tell his mother the wonderful
things he had seen, and the wonderful things he had heard in the
forests and on the mountain-sides.

Gareth's mother, the Queen of Orkney, loved the little prince so
much that she was never dull. She had no one to talk to except her
little son, for her husband was old, so old that he could not talk
to his Queen. And if she talked to him, he was almost too deaf to
hear what she said.

But though the Queen was never dull, she was sometimes unhappy. She
was afraid that some day, when Gareth was older, he would want to
leave her to go into the world, perhaps to go to the great King
Arthur's court, as his three brothers had done.

Now Gareth had already heard stories about the brave deeds of King
Arthur's knights. He knew that they were strong men, and that they
fought for the weak people, and that they often had great
adventures, when they were sent to punish the King's enemies. And
Gareth longed to be a man, for 'when I am a man, I will be one of
Arthur's knights, too,' he thought.

[Illustration: SOMETIMES THE BIRDS & BEASTS HIS WOODLAND FRIENDS
WOULD CALL TO HIM

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At last, one day, his mother knew that what she had been afraid of
had come to pass. She knew that Gareth would not be content to stay
among the mountains much longer. But when he thre