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sadly of his future, saying that he knew that he
now rode to his death. But when such words
crossed his lips. His Holiness stopped him with
upraised hand and chid him gently thus:

"My son, know you that all things are possible
to him who believeth upon Our Gracious Lord--
even as He Himself hath said. Go you forth armed
in faith and you shall conquer--yes, even though
against you stand in mailed might all the awful
forces of the heathen."

And at these words Huon's heart was lightened
of a heavy care and he was as a man who has been
freed from heavy chains. His Holiness then bid
Huon seek out the Duke Garyn, he who was kin
to Duke Sevin and now abode at St. Omar. And
Huon did as he was commanded, finding Garyn
a knight of no little renown, well marked by all
the realm of Christendom.

Duke Garyn welcomed the youth with open
arms, taking him to his bosom and proclaiming
him one to sit in the place of the son and heir he
had never known. Because, as he told Huon, the
boy was as the Duke Sevin had been in his first
youth and Duke Sevin was his own brother. Thus
did Huon meet with his uncle and receive much
honor and kindness from him.

When the time came that Huon and his men
must take ship for the land of the Saracens, Duke
Garyn called to him his lady wife and said:

"Look you well, my lady, to the affairs of this
duchy for I am minded to sail with my nephew so
that he ventures not alone into this great danger."

His lady wept full sore as she replied to her lord
thus:

"My good lord, much do I fear to see you go from

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me, for evil have been my dreams of late and I