But Morven greeted him as a brother, and bade him to a feast,
which, for the first time, he purposed giving at the full of the
moon, in honor of the stars.

And going out of Darvan's chamber, he returned to his wife, and
bade her hair, and go at the dawn of day to the king, her
brother, and complain bitterly of Morven's treatment, and pluck
the black schemes from the breast of the king. "For surely,"
said he, "Darvan hath lied to thy brother, and some evil awaits
me that I would fain know."

So the next morning Orna sought the king, and she said:

"The herdsman's son hath reviled me, and spoken harsh words to
me; stall I not be avenged?"

Then the king stamped his feet and shook his mighty sword.

"Surely thou shalt be avenged, for I have learned from one of
the elders that which convinceth me that the man hath lied to
the people, and the base-born shall surely die.

"Yea, the first time that he goeth alone into the forest my
brother and I will fall upon him and smite him to the death."

And with this comfort Siror dismissed Orna.

And Orna flung herself at the feet of her husband.

"Fly now, O my beloved!--fly into the forests afar from my