the still loneliness of that high plateau, treeless, houseless, with
no sign of human hand there but that high, towering monolith round
which the shrill winds moan incessantly. There, possibly on some
broken fragment of those great grey stones, Queen Harbundia sat in
judgment. And the judgment was--and from it there was no appeal-
-that the fairy Malvina should be cast out from among the community
of the White Ladies of Brittany. Over the face of the earth she
should wander, alone and unforgiven. Solemnly from the book of the
roll-call of the White Ladies the name of Malvina was struck out for
ever.

The blow must have fallen upon Malvina as heavily as it was
unexpected. Without a word, without one backward look, she seems to
have departed. One pictures the white, frozen face, the wide-open,
unseeing eyes, the trembling, uncertain steps, the groping hands,
the deathlike silence clinging like grave-clothes round about her.

From that night the fairy Malvina disappears from the book of the
chroniclers of the White Ladies of Brittany, from legend and from
folklore whatsoever. She does not appear again in history till the
year A.D. 1914.



II. HOW IT CAME ABOUT.



It was on an evening towards the end of June, 1914, that Flight
Commander Raffleton, temporarily attached to the French Squadron