The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06

The Queen looked out and sad Launcelot walking in the cloister. Sh} recognized him at once, and fainte1 When she had recovered she said to thj nuns and to her ladies. who had gath<1 cred in alarm about her; 'I pray yot| call wonder knight to me-" Wht Launcelot stood before the Queen sl
 said: Through this knight and me d these wars were wfought and the death of the most noble knights of all ths world. For through the love that wsI have loved together is my noble hus- band slain. Therefore, mark ye we'll Launcelot, I am in sore plight to get my souls health back again. And ysil I trust, through Gods grace. that aftei my death I may be saved. For as sinful creatures as I have become saints Id heaven. Launcelot', I beseech you b.X the love that was once between us. an. I require of you in Gods name, that. you depart immediately, and that may never see your face again. As well as I once loved thee. Launcelot, my heart will not bear for me to look upor you. For it is through you and me tha the flower of knights and kings is de stroyed. Get thee into thy kingdoi there take a wife and live with he
 in joy and bliss, and there pray to tn Lord our God. for me that my sir may be washed away
 Nay, madam" replied Launcelot. ! take a wife that may I never do 2 same destiny which you have taken yourself that will l take upon me. serve God for the rest of my life penance and prayer. And now as I 1, forth I pray thee, madam, kiss me
 and never more in all the wor
 Nay" said the Queen, that shal 7 never do more" And so they pari and Launcelot, heavy of heart. rode I til he was aware of little chapel II heard little bell ring to mass. WI in he saw two hermits, who were ! who had been Archbishop of Canter- bury and he who had been Sir Bedivere. Kneeling down, Launcelot prayed the bishop to assoil him and to receive him into the company of the hermitage They put a coarse garb on him. an
 there he abode in fasting and prayer. J Meantime at Dover Sir Bors sent>tt1 great host home again to France. W | he, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Bal
 Sir Bleoberis and other knights n were of kin to Launcelot took U themselves to ride through all Eng, | to find their chief. In course of ! seven of these knights came to chapel near Glastonbury and fo
 Launcelot there. There they all tct | I,a It of 4f, l., ance. doing all manner of lowly wei and constant in fasting and prayer. 1l
 ter six years Launcelot entered irt holy orders and was ordained priess
 It was about a year after Launc, had become priest that vision cafrs
 him at night and told him that O. l Guenever was dead at Almesbury l that he was to go and fetch her and bury it beside that of her King Arthur. So Launcelot and" low hermits departed on K
 Glastonbury and walked to AN A] and though the distance was N "a | 30 miles 1t took them two daN N walk it, for they were weary, weakNl 1 feeble old men now-those knights VI had once been so strong. They found A' Queen indeed dead, and they carri'Ia | her body to Glastonbury and laid it lsYs side that of King Arthur Within six
 weeks Launcelot himself fell sick and
 died, and his fellows bore his body | to the Castle of the Joyous Garde.
 where they buried him with great lam- | entation. This is the end of the book of King Arthur and his Knights of the
 Round Table. that, when they were
 whole together. numbered 140. and of
 the true story of the Mort d'Arthur.
 Next weeks one-page classic will
 be "The Cricket on the Hearth.'' by Charles Dickens.