was actually on his face the next morning, and he set out
at the head of half the Lances of Lynwood to find the poor old woman,
and visit her with condign punishment; but she was not forthcoming, and
they were obliged to content themselves with burning her house,
assisted by a host of idlers. In the meantime, Sir Eustace had called
in the aid of the clergy: the chaplains of the camp came in procession,
sprinkled the patient's bed with holy water, and uttered an exorcism,
but without availing to prevent a third visit from the enemy. After
this, however, Leonard's fever began to abate, and he ceased to be
haunted.

He had been very ill; and, thoroughly alarmed, he thought himself
dying, and bitterly did he repent of the headstrong insubordination and
jealously which had lead him to quit his best and only friend. He had
not, indeed, the refinement of feeling which would have made Eustace's
generosity his greatest reproach; he clung to him as his support, and
received his attentions almost as a right; but still he was sensible
that he had acted like a fool, and that such friendship was not to be
thrown away; and when he began to recover he showed himself subdued, to
a certain degree grateful, and decidedly less sullen and more amenable
to authority.

In the meantime, the Prince of Wales found himself sufficiently
recovered to undertake to return to Aquitaine, and, weary of the
treacherous delays and flagrant crimes of his ally, he resolved to quit
this fatal land of Castile.

There was a general cry of joy throughout the camp when orders were
given that the tents should be struck and the army begin its march in
the early coolness of the next morning; and, without further adventure,
the Black Prince led his weakened and reduced forces over the Pyrenees
back into France. Here they were again dispersed, as the war was at an
end; and the young Sir Eustace Lynwood received high commendation from
the Prince, and even from Chandos himself, for being able to show his
brother's band as complete in numbers and discipline as on the day when
it was given into his charge.

"This," as Chandos said, "was a service which really showed him worthy
of his spurs, if he would but continue the good course."

The peace with France, however, prevented the Prince from being
desirous of keeping up the Lances of Lynwood, and he therefore offered
to take their young leader into his own troop of Knights, who were
maintained at his own table, a