; otherwise he gave it all
to those who had suffered so much at the hands of Sir Godwin.

Then after all this was accomplished, it being then come eventide, Sir
Lamorack said: "Let every living soul quit this place, for it is a den
of thieves, and shall no longer be permitted to stand stone upon stone."

[Sidenote: _Sir Lamorack setteth fire to the castle._]

So all they of the castle came and stood without the walls, both young
and old, strong and weak, man and woman, the sick and the well. And when
all had thus come forth, Sir Lamorack gave command that torches should
be set here and there to the castle. So it was done according to that
command, and in a little while all that castle was in a flame of fire,
so that the falling night was made bright with the illumination thereof.

In the light of that illumination Sir Lamorack and Sir Percival rode
away with the lady of Sir Tarn. And they brought the lady to where the
wounded man lay--and he had then recovered his strength in a great
measure and was in a way of regaining his life and his health once more.

So a pavilion was set up over Sir Tarn and after he was in all wise made
comfortable, Sir Percival and Sir Lamorack departed from that place and
went upon their way, riding through the night and all enwrapped around
about by the darkness of the night and of the woodlands.

* * * * *

Thus it was that Sir Lamorack and Sir Percival met at that bridge in
the valley; thus they visited together their mother, the prioress of St.
Bridget's Priory; thus they destroyed that nest of thieves, and thus
they departed once more upon their way.

And now followeth the story of how Sir Percival met Sir Ector de Maris;
of how Sir Percival joined company with Sir Ector; of how they
discovered a certain very wonderful isle in a lake of clear water, and
of how Sir Ector had to do with a certain knight who was the champion of
that island aforesaid.

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[Illustration: Sir Percival and Sir Ector look upon the Isle of Joy:]

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Chapter Second

_How Sir Percival and Sir Ector de Maris came to a very wonderful place
where was a castle in the midst of a lake._

That night Sir Lamorack and Sir Percival lay in the woodlands, each
wrapped in his cloak, and each sleeping very soundly after all the
travails of the day. And when the next morning had come Sir Percival
awoke a little before the dawning of the day and Sir La