But the day came at last when he and Walker adventured forth. And the
new knight carried no shield for one was awaiting him, a shield that
carried a great cross to signify his seeking. This he was to find at
the convent near Carboneck. So Merlin had advised him.

Two days of journey passed without ontoward event but on the third day
there came to him a yeoman in great woe.

"What grieves you, friend?" asked Walker while Sir Galahad waited.

"Great are my troubles for my master will surely flay me until I die.
I was bringing him his best horse from the castle when a knight
stopped me. Though I told him that the horse was my master's and how
much store he set by it yet did he take the same from me. When I
protested as best I might, he brought his sword upon me and it was
fortune that I was not slain."

"Know you the knight?" asked Sir Galahad kindly.

"Nay, Sir, except that he told me he needed the horse at Calomet."

"I shall go hither. It is but a short journey and you may come with
me. For it does not seem a knightly act, this taking of your master's
horse and it needs explaining."

"I thank you master. For little value though my life may be, I value
it nevertheless," replied the yeoman.

So they went on to Calomet. And when they arrived there the yeoman
most fortunately espied his master's horse.