"Well," said Clement, "this is my rede. Since Bull Shockhead would bury
his brother, and lord Ralph would seek the damsel, and whereas there
is water anigh, and the sun is well nigh set, let us pitch our tents
and abide here till morning, and let night bring counsel unto some of us.
How say ye, fellows?"

None naysaid it, and they fell to pitching the tents, and lighting
the cooking-fires; but Bull at once betook him to digging a grave
for his brother, whilst Ralph with the captain and four others
went and sought all about the place, and looked into all clefts
of rocks, and found not the maiden, nor any token of her.
They were long about it, and when they were come back again,
and it was night, though the moon shone out, there was Bull
Shockhead standing by the howe of his brother Bull Nosy,
which was heaped up high over the place where they had found him.

So when Bull saw him, he turned to him and said:
"King's son, I have done what needs was for this present.
Now, wilt thou slay me for my fault, or shall I be thy man again,
and serve thee truly unless the blood feud come between us?"
Said Ralph: "Thou shalt serve me truly, and help me
to find him who hath slain thy brother, and carried off
the damsel; for even thus it hath been done meseemeth,
since about here we have seen no signs of her alive or dead.
But to-morrow we shall seek wider ere I ride on my way."
"Yea," said Bull, "and I will be one in the search."

So then they gat them to their sleeping-berths, and Ralph,
contrary to his wont, lay long awake, pondering these things;
till at last he said to himself that this woman, whom he called Dorothea,