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"So that is how you come by the crest," I said quietly; but I thought of the branded skull in the gravel pit, and wondered. "Yes," said Lys. "The Sieur de Trevec cut the Black Priest's head off, but first he branded him with an arrow mark on the forehead. The book says it was a pious action, and the Sieur de Trevec got great merit by it. But I think it was cruel, the branding," she sighed.
Well, then: It happened in the third crusade. There was a monk whom men called the Black Priest. He turned apostate, and sold himself to the enemies of Christ. A Sieur de Trevec burst into the Saracen camp, at the head of only one hundred lances, and carried the Black Priest away out of the very midst of their army."
"It was written in that scroll that Marie Trevec, of Groix Island, was cursed by the priest she and her descendants," I said, touching Le Bihan on the arm. "There was a Marie Trevec who married an Yves Trevec of St. Gildas " "It is the same," said Le Bihan, looking at me obliquely. "Oh!" said I; "then they were ancestors of my wife." "Do you fear the curse?" asked Le Bihan. "What?" I laughed.
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