od Old Man had foretold, evil day

to live peacefully in his castle and mind his own affairs, which, were quite imp

ied to stay in the Island of Sunne and work so hard collecting rents when they might go to war and win

reaten to put him in prison if he did not stop it. I do not know how it would have ended if

day out for a sail on the bay, when a sudden squa

could not be expected to know much about ruling a country. They, however, did not have very much to say in the m

drowned, there was nobody in particular to disagree with him, and he imme

ey could earn to pay them. This was to keep up an immense army which he had formed with t

e people of the kingdom demande

all the good laws his father had made, and save his country from go

ittle wharf there. The night was very dark, and Daimur could not see because they had thrown a cloak over him and fastened it over his head, but he could tell that it was a small boat by the way it rocked when they moved about. The men ran up a couple of sails and pushed off to sea. The boat raced swiftly through the waves, but Daimur thought the journey would never end as he lay bound in the bow of the boat, and

turn, not to leave him there alone. T

he small boat, which he recognized as his uncle's, so how he felt certain that his uncle had cau