better if he be royal."

"That, it meseemeth, might well be," said the abbot,
who saw his opportunity to smooth things and avert
disaster, "for it were not likely that so wonderful a
gift as this would be conferred for the revelation of the
concerns of lesser beings than such as be born near to
the summits of greatness. Our Arthur the king --"

"Would you know of him?" broke in the en-
chanter.

"Most gladly, yea, and gratefully."

Everybody was full of awe and interest again right