Likewise there were the fiefs of Dom Meunier, Count of Montors, Dom Manuel’s brother-in-law. Meunier was not of this fellowship: he held also Giens. Here his wife ruled over Lower Duardenois. _¶ Othmar Black-Tooth_, whom some called Othmar the Lawless, long held Valnères and Ogde, until Manuel routed him: thereafter these villages, with the most of Bovion, stayed masterless. _¶ Helmas the Deep-Minded_, after a magic was put upon him in the year of grace 1255, held, in his fashion, the high place at Brunbelois: but the rest of Acaire, once Lorcha had been taken and Sclaug burned, was no man’s land. Also upon Upper Morven lived disaffected persons in defiance of all law and piety. —_Poictesme en Chanson et Légende._ G. J. Bülg. Strasburg, 1785. [Pp. 87-88.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS BOOK ONE: LAST SIEGE OF THE FELLOWSHIP PAGE I Child’s Talk 3 II Economics of Horvendile 7 III How Anavalt Lamented the Redeemer 17 IV Fog Rises 21 BOOK TWO: THE MATHEMATICS OF GONFAL V Champion at Misadventure 27 VI The Loans of Power 31 VII Fatality the Second 39 VIII How the Princes Bragged 42 IX The Loans of Wisdom 46 X Relative to Gonfal’s Head 49 XI Economics of Morvyth 56 BOOK THREE: TOUPAN’S BRIGHT BEES XII The Mage Emeritus 61 XIII Economics of Gisèle 67 XIV The Changing That Followed 73 XV Disastrous Rage of Miramon 76 XVI Concerns the Pleiades and a Razor 78 XVII Epitome of Marriage 81 XVIII Koshchei is Vexed 87 XIX Settlement: in Full 90 BOOK FOUR: COTH AT PORUTSA XX Idolatry of an Alderman 97 XXI The Profits of Pepper Selling 104 XXII Toveyo Dances 110 XXIII Regrettable Conduct of a Corpse 113 XXIV Economics of Yaotl 119 XXV Last Obligation upon Manuel 122 XXVI The Realist in Defeat 128 BOOK FIVE: “MUNDUS VULT DECIPI”