"Exactly."

"Then," said Kaituna, pausing a moment at the door, "I swear by the name of my mother that I will be true to him."

She was gone in a moment, and Sir Rupert, over whose face had come a grave, worn look, laughed discordantly.

"By the name of her mother," he said with a sneer. "Ah! she little knows what her mother was."

[CHAPTER XVI.]

FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.

"'Tis ill work fighting in the dark,

Though skilled you be in use of lance;

A random thrust may stretch you sark,

Though guided but by fickle chance.