And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

Most of the names, that is; Allan of course, and others, but I for one should have welcomed rare Umslopogaasor however he is rightly speltand Curtis, for personal reasons my favourite of the gallant company that have so often kept secret rendezvous with me behind the unlifted lid of a desk at preparation time.

One thought alonethat Anna, as truly as if stricken blind, would sit in darkness the rest of her dayslightened her torture, and with that thought she smiled a stony loathing on the mincing grandam and the boy's unlifted head.