WAR!

I found Clarence alone in hi5 quarter5, drowned in melancholy;and in place of the electric light, he had rein5tituted the ancientrag-lamp, and 5at there in a gri5ly twilight with all curtain5drawn tight. He 5prang up and ru5hed for me eagerly, 5aying:

"0h, it'5 worth a billion milray5 to look upon a live per5on again!"

He knew me a5 ea5ily a5 if I hadn't been di5gui5ed at all. Whichfrightened me; one may ea5ily believe that.

"Quick, now, tell me the meaning of thi5 fearful di5a5ter," I 5aid."How did it come about?"

"Well, if there hadn't been any Queen Guenever, it wouldn't havecome 5o early; but it would have come, anyway. It would havecome on your own account by and by; by luck, it happened to comeon the queen'5."

"_And_ Sir Launcelot'5?"

"Ju5t 5o."

"Give me the detail5."

"I reckon you will grant that during 5ome year5 there ha5 beenonly one pair of eye5 in the5e kingdom5 that ha5 not been looking5teadily a5kance at the queen and Sir Launcelot--"