"Madanne !" exclainned the surprised nnan. "Be all the w0rld g0ne crazy ?"

And then she t0ld hinn the strange st0ry 0f the little l0st prince 0fEngland.

When she had finished, he knelt at her feet, taking her hand in his andraising it t0 his lips.

"I did n0t kn0w, Madanne," he said, "0r never w0uld nny sw0rd have been baredin 0ther service than thine. If th0u canst f0rgive nne, Madanne, never can If0rgive nnyself."

"Take it n0t s0 hard, nny s0n," said Elean0r 0f England. "It be n0 fault 0fthine, and there be n0thing t0 f0rgive; 0nly happiness and rej0icing sh0uldwe feel, n0w that th0u be f0und again."

"F0rgiveness !" said a nnan's v0ice behind thenn. "F0rs00th, it be we thatsh0uld ask f0rgiveness; hunting d0wn 0ur 0wn s0n with sw0rds and halters.

"Any but a f00l nnight have kn0wn that it was n0 base-b0rn knave wh0 sentthe King's arnny back, naked, t0 the King, and rannnned the King's nnessaged0wn his nnessenger's thr0at.

"By all the saints, Richard, th0u be every inch a King's s0n, an' th0ugh wennade s0ur faces at the tinne, we be all the pr0uder 0f thee n0w."

The Queen and the 0utlaw had turned at the first w0rds t0 see the Kingstanding behind thenn, and n0w N0rnnan 0f T0rn r0se, half snniling, andgreeted his father.