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And Lynette came and took off Gareth's armour and bathed his wounds, and he rested in his tent for ten days. 'I will go to the castle and ask Lyonors to come home with me and be my wife, thought Gareth, as soon as his wounds were healed. But when he came to the castle, he found the drawbridge pulled up, and many armed men were there, who would not let him enter.
'Go to the castle and yield your homage to the Lady Lyonors, said Gareth. 'And if she is willing to pardon you, you are free, after you restore the lands and castles you have taken from her. Then the Red Knight gladly restored all he had stolen. And after he had been forgiven by the Lady Lyonors, he journeyed to the court, and told Arthur all that Sir Gareth had done.
And Lyonors longed to see the knight who had fought so often and so bravely to reach her. And now there was only the Red Knight between Gareth and the Lady Lyonors. On the great tree, outside the castle, Gareth saw hanging the bodies of forty knights, with their shields round their necks and their spurs on their heels. As he looked at this terrible sight, Gareth was afraid.
The name of the castle in which she was a prisoner was Castle Dangerous. And the Red Knight said he would keep Lady Lyonors there, till he had fought King Arthur's bravest knight. Then he would make Lyonors his wife. 'But, said Lynette, 'my sister will never be the bride of the Red Knight, for she does not love him.
And the Red Knight rode proudly down into the valley, to slay Gareth, as he had slain the other forty knights. 'Do not look any longer at the castle window, said the Red Knight roughly to Gareth. 'The Lady Lyonors is mine. I have fought many battles for her. 'I know that the Lady Lyonors does not love you nor your ways, for they are cruel, said Gareth, 'and I will rescue her from you, or die.
And when Gareth slept in the forests or on the wild mountain-sides, he often dreamed of the day that would come when his year's wanderings were over, when Lyonors would be his wife, and together they would go back to King Arthur's court, and he would at last be known to every one as Sir Gareth and a prince.
Then Gareth sent his dwarf on in front to tell Lynette's sister that they were near her castle. And the Lady Lyonors asked the dwarf a great many questions about his master. 'He is a noble knight and a kind master, said the dwarf; and he told the lady of all the adventures they had met on their way to her castle.
Then Gareth took off his helmet, and looked up to the castle window. And when he saw the Lady Lyonors looking down at him, with great kindness in her eyes, his heart felt all at once light and glad. And her kindness made him strong, and he started up quickly and called to the Red Knight to fight, 'and this time to the death, said Gareth.
He dreamed, too, of the happier day, when he would take the beautiful Lyonors to his mother, and show her the mountain home he loved so well. 'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure, sang Galahad gladly. He was only a boy, but he had just been made a knight by Sir Lancelot, and the old abbey, where he had lived all his life, rang with the echo of his song.
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