the sons of Usna, and say to Nathos the eldest, that in the forest beyond
the Moor of Loneliness, Deirdre awaits his coming. Tell him that
to-morrow, an hour before the setting of the sun, he will find her by this
well.'

'If it be known that I so break the law of the King, I die, yet will I go
right gladly.'

Then Deirdre left the men, and walked slowly after Lavarcam. And Lavarcam
would fain have known what Deirdre had told the swineherd, but the girl
told her nought, and was in a dream all that day and all the morrow.

It was in the wane of the morrow that Lavarcam went forth to take counsel
of the King. And Deirdre ran with great speed to the well, but no man was
there, and she waited long, but none came.

While Deirdre waited by the well, Lavarcam came near to the King's palace.
And lo! there, on the ground before her, lay the dead body of the
swineherd. Thus was it made known to Lavarcam that in some wise Concobar
the King had heard that the swineherd had spoken with Deirdre.

Therefore Lavarcam went not to the palace, but turned aside to the camp of
the sons of Usna. And Nathos came out to her, and she told him of the
loneliness of the fair Deirdre and of her longing to see him.

Then said Nathos, 'But it may not be yet awhile, for Concobar found that
the fair Deirdre had spoken with the swineherd, and for that cause lies he
yonder, a dead man.'

'Yet tarry not long, for if thou wouldst hunt in the forest, beyond the