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Our Storu when tidings had come
THE GREAT TREACHERY AT SOONEFJORD
AND PRINCE VALIANT'S DISAPPEARANCE
AFTER THE BATTLE, IT WAS ALETA WHO
SAID : "DOAT WOffRY, S&E, HE CAM
LOOK AFTEff HMSELE HE
TURAS Uf3 AND WENT CHEERFULLY
ABOUT HER DUTIES :
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BUT IN THE LONELINESS OF THE NIGHT
HER EYES ARE FEAR-HAUNTED, AND
ALTHOUGH HE HAS ALWAYS RETURNED
SO FAR, HER HEART KEEPS REPEATING,
"WLL THS BE THE TIME? "
THEN COMES VAL'S SHIPMASTER WITH
THE NEWS THATVAL ESCAPED INTO
. THE MOUNTAINS. "X TOLD YOU SOS "
LAUGHS ALETA .
ALETA LOVES THE CALM, HEALTHY LIFE AT VIKINGS''
HOLM, BUT LOOKING AT HER GROWING FAMILY, SHE "
REALIZES THAT SOON SHE WILL BE A BENT OLD WOMAN.
SHE NEEDS GAIETY IN THE REMAINING YEARS .OF HER
VOUTH.
an
; SHORTLY THEREAFTER KING ARTHUR RECEIVES A SCENTED ' J vMi'' '
MESSAGE UPBRAIDING HIM FOR ALLOWING PRINCE VALIANT TO PiTS.,. f--'K"''--lSm f MWaM jSk . ' 261
WAX FAT AND LAZY AT HOME WHEN HE SHOULD BE ATTEND- Jt , fi V!' Jf . I VeC-VS " JjT
ING TO BUSINESS AT THE ROUND TABLE, AND SUGGESTING THAT v V -v U fUi lMn-XlU .1 7 iwV tSS 7 ' V - I
AN INVITATION. ..NAY, A DEMAND. ..THAT HE BRING HIS WIFE TO . XWy-'iUrxt 6T- ' Kv V ' v I
CAMELOTiFOR THE SOCIAL SEASON WOULD BE IN ORDER! V Mll L yVHI ilJX THSkz'X f
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-0fWik ' f-'rKSm V 0!rms. e!- I T t J RECEIVES A SUMMONS TO RSTURM TO CAMELOT
t ALAa " t y'iSf -!if rj SO IT IS NOT SO STRANGE THAT I (( fi eS " IMMEDIATELY, AND WITH A SPECIAL REQUEST THAT HE
VVljW V- ' WIPK-A J B-S SHORTLY AFTER VAL AND THE I 1 Ml -f&g BRING QUEEN ALETA TO BRIGHTEN UP THE COURT.
fvVfSTr rSr vJV ; I KING RETURN FROM THE WARS ... 1 jf?' T, rdle -'
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