Chapter LII. The Meeting of Osberne and Elfhild Chapter LIII. Strangers Come to Wethermel Chapter LIV. The Carline Beginneth Her Tale Chapter LV. The Blue Knight Buys the Maiden of the Chapman Chapter LVI. The Blue Knight Talks with the Maiden by the Way Chapter LVII. They Come to Brookside Chapter LVIII. Peaceful Days in the Castle of Brookside Chapter LIX. Tidings of Longshaw and of the Hosting of the Barons' League Chapter LX. The Blue Knight Gathers Men and Departs from Brookside Chapter LXI. The Maiden and the Carline Flee to the Grey Sisters Chapter LXII. They Fall in with Three Chapmen Chapter LXIII. They Escape from the Chapmen by the Carline's Wizardry Chapter LXIV. The Carline Endeth Her Tale Chapter LXV. Osberne and Elfhild Make Themselves Known to Their People Chapter LXVI. The Lip of the Sundering Flood Chapter LXVII. A Friend at Need Chapter LXVIII. The Knight of Longshaw Gathereth Force ILLUSTRATIONS Map of the country of the Sundering Flood THE SUNDERING FLOOD Chapter I. Of a River Called the Sundering Flood, and of the Folk that Dwelt Thereby It is told that there was once a mighty river which ran south into the sea, and at the mouth thereof was a great and rich city, which had been builded and had waxed and thriven because of the great and most excellent haven which the river aforesaid made where it fell into the sea. And now it was like looking at a huge wood of barked and smoothened fir-trees when one saw the masts of the ships that lay in the said haven.