commune with the Powers of Night.

But Orna loved Morven better than Siror, therefore she told her
husband all.

And Morven resented the king's ingratitude, and was troubled
much, for a king is a powerful foe; but tie comforted Orna, and
bade her dissemble and complain also of him to her brother, so
that he might confide to her unsuspectingly whatsoever he might
design against Morven.

There was a cave by Morven's house in which he kept the sacred
hawk, and wherein he secretly trained and nurtured other birds
against future need, and the door of the cave was always barred.

And one day he was thus engaged when he beheld a chink in the
wall, that he had never noted before, and the sun came playfully
in; and while he looked he perceived the sunbeam was darkened,
and presently he saw a human face peering in through the chink.

And Morven trembled, for he knew he had been watched.


Morven ran hastily from the cave, but the spy had disappeared
among the trees, and Morven went straight to the chamber of
Darvan and sat himself down.

Darvan did not return home till late, and he started and turned
pale when he saw Morven.