"That is passing strange," rejoined the other. " I myself have seen him
before, but never as he appeared to-night."

"You are a keeper of the forest, I presume, friend?" said Surrey. "How
are you named?"

"I am called Morgan Fenwolf," replied the keeper; "and you?"

"I am the Earl of Surrey;' returned the young noble.

"What!" exclaimed Fenwolf, making a reverence, "the son to his grace
of Norfolk?"

The earl replied in the affirmative.

"Why, then, you must be the young nobleman whom I used to see so
often with the king's son, the Duke of Richmond, three or four years
ago, at the castle? " rejoined Fenwolf "You are altogether grown out of
my recollection."

Not unlikely," returned the earl. " I have been at Oxford, and have only
just completed my studies. This is the first time I have been at Windsor
since the period you mention."

"I have heard that the Duke of Richmond was at Oxford likewise,"
observed Fenwolf.

"We were at Cardinal College together," replied Surrey. "But the duke's
term was completed before mine. He is my senior by three years."