dream is true, I am to help you and you are to find the Grail."

"So the strange monk told me, Yosalinde. He spoke of one who was to
help me and she of whom he spoke, I could not take to be other than
you. You and one other and unless I mistake not that other is Sir
Launcelot. But it hurts, this thought that you and I will not see each
other for the long time you are in the convent."

"But, dear Allan, there is always that time beyond that. It is
wonderful to look forward to that, is it not?"

The boy nodded in assent, a little slowly, as if he were realizing
that it was so. He looked at the girl now and the feeling grew that
Yosalinde was to be the one who would lead him onward. Even now, her
fine spirit was helping him to cross the first of the pitfalls. The
wish for the girl was the first rung on the high ladder of worthiness.

In the late afternoon the boy returned to the court. Of a truth he had
almost forgotten that this was the day for the kitchen boy to come
forth. Nor did he, what with thinking of Yosalinde and his mission
that must soon be, remember it until he had almost returned.

"Come Walker, let us make haste, for I would know the news."

So they hurried and had not been inside the gates many moments before
Allan had found out. But it was only when he came to Sir Launcelot
that he heard the other news that he could go forth with the other two
on adventure's way.

He was glad that he could go with these two who were also young for he