Knyght Ther Was-Robert F. Young

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1:29Section 1 of Unite There Was by Robert F. Young This is a Libravox recording. All Libravox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libravox.org. Recording by Roger Malene. Unite There Was by Robert F. Young. Section 1 Unite There Was and That A Worthy Man, that for the time that he first began to ride out, he loved chivalry, truth, and honor, freedom, and courtesy. The Canterbury Tales Malorie, who among other things was a time thief, rematerialized the time spaceboat Yor, in the eastern section of a secluded valley in ancient Britain, and typed Castle,

2:31early 6th century on the Luma Lusion panel. Then he stepped over to the control room tele window and studied the three-dimensional screen. The hour was 8 o'clock PM, the season summer, the year 542 AD. Darkness was on hand, but there was a full moon rising, and he could see trees not far away, oaks and beaches mostly. Roving the eye of the camera, he saw more trees of the same species. The Castle of Yor was safely ensconced in a forest. Satisfied, he turned away. If his calculations were correct, the Castle of Carbonic stood in the next valley to the south, and on a silver table in a chamber of the castle stood the object of his quest. If his calculations were correct, Malorie was not one to keep himself in suspense,

3:37stepping into the supply room, he stripped down to his undergarments and proceeded to get into the custom-built suit of armor, which he had purchased expressly for the operation. Fortunately, while duplication of early 6th century design had been mandatory, there had been no need to duplicate early 6th century materials, and solorites, spurs, grieves, quizzes, breastplate, paldrons, gorgeate, arm coverings, gauntlets, helmet, and chainmail vest had all been fashioned of lightweight alloys that lent 10 times as much protection at 10 times less poundage. The helmet was his particular pride and joy. In keeping with the period piece after which it had been patterned, it looked like an upside-down metal waste paper basket, but the one-way transparency of the special alloy that had gone into its construction gave him unrestricted vision, while two inbuilt audio amplifiers performed a

4:42corresponding service for his hearing. The outer surface of each piece had been burnished to a high degree, and he found himself a dazzling sight indeed when he looked into the supply room mirror. This effect was enhanced no end when he buckled on his chrome-plated scabbard and red-hilted sword and hung his snow-white shield around his neck. His polished spear, when he stood it beside him, was almost anticlimactic. It should have been. It was a good three and one-half inches in diameter at the base, and it was as tall as a young flagpole. As he stood there, looking at his reflection, the red cross in the center of the shield took on the hue of freshly shed blood. The period piece expert who had designed the shield had insisted on the illusion, saying that it made for greater authenticity, and Mallory hadn't argued with him.

5:45He was glad now that he hadn't. Raising the visor of his helmet, he winked at himself and said, I hear by Chris and ye, Sir Gala had. Next, he bethought himself of his steed. Armor-clanking, he left the supplier room and walked down the short passage to the wreck hall. The wreck hall occupied the entire forward section of the T.S.B. and had been designed solely for the benefit of the time-tourists, whom Mallory regularly conducted on past tours as a cover-up for the illegal activities which he pursued in between trips. In the present instance, however, the hall went quite well with the yours Lululujand exterior, possessing with its gallery-like mezzanine, its long snack table, and its imitation flagstone flooring, an early sixth-century aspect of its own, an aspect marred only slightly by the anachronistic telewindows in set at

6:49regular intervals along the walls. Mallory's steed stood in a stall-like enclosure that was formed by the tourist bar and one of the walls, and it was a splendid beast indeed, as splendid a one as the twenty-second-century robotics industry was capable of creating. Originally, Mallory had planned on bringing a real horse with him, but as this would have necessitated his having to learn how to ride, he had decided against it. The decision had been a wise one. Easy money looked more like a horse than most real horses did, could travel twice as fast, and was as easy to ride and to maneuver as a golf-jetney. It was light brown in color and a white diamond on its forehead. It was equipped with a secret group compartment and an inbuilt saddle, and its fetlock-length trappings were made

7:49of genuine synthosilk threaded with gold. It wore no armor. It did not need to. Weapons manufactured during the age of chivalry could no more penetrate its hide than a toothpick could. Come on easy money, Mallory and Sephela Path. You and I have a little job to do. The row horse emitted several realistic winnies, backed out of its stall, trotted smartly over to the side, and nuzzled his right pauldron. Mallory mounted, not gracefully it is true, but at least without the aid of the wench he would have needed if his armor had been manufactured in the sixth century, and inserted the red pommel of his spear in the stirrup socket. Then, activating the Yor's lock, he rode across the imaginary drawbridge that spanned the Mirage moat and set forth into the forest. As the port-colus closed behind him, symbolically bringing

8:55phase one of Operation Sangreal to a close, he thought of Jason Perfidian. Standing in front of the Florida ceiling, wall-to-wall fireplace in the big balcony room, Perfidian said, Mallory, you're wasting your time. Worse, you're wasting mine. The room climaxed a vertical series of slightly less sumptuous chambers known collectively as the Perfidian tower, and the Perfidian tower stood with a score of balcony brothers on a blacktop island in the exact center of Kansas's largest golf course. A short distance from the fraternal gathering stood yet another tower, the false tower into which Mallory had lumillusioned his T.S.B. upon his arrival. On the golf terrace, as the blacktop island was called, everyone and everything conformed or else. The room itself was known to time thieves as Perfidian's lair,

10:01and yet there was nothing about Jason Perfidian, nothing physical that is, that suggested the predator. He was Mallory's age 33, tall, dark of hair, and strikingly handsome. He looked like and was a highly successful businessman with a triplex on Get Rich Quick Street, and he gave the impression that he was as honest as the day was long. Just the same, the predator was there, and if you were alert enough, you could sometimes glimpse it peering out through the smoky window-pains of his eyes. It wasn't peering out now, though. It was sleeping. However, it was due to wake up any second. Then you're not interested in fencing the Holy Grail, Mallory asked. annoyance intensified the slight swareness of Perfidian's cheeks.

11:03Mallory, you know as well as I do that the Grail never really existed, that it was nothing more than the meat-inspired daydream of a bunch of Quixotic Knights. So go and get your haircut and forget about it. But, suppose it did exist, Mallory insisted. Suppose tomorrow afternoon at this time, I would come in here and set it down on this desk here. How much could you get for it? Perfidian laughed. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rose untrimmed are 599 per pound, limited for Rose with membership wear applicable, and medium-ripe Hassovicados are 99 cents each, with membership wear applicable. Plus Kellogg's cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.9 to 8 ounces are 1.99 each when you buy three. Limit three offers with membership wear applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save.

12:06Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have Exema. So I get how it can steal your time. But why let Exema take over when you can talk to your doctor about Ebglyse? Ebglyse, lubricism app LBKZ, a 250-mg per 2-ml injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kg with moderate to severe ebglyse. Also called a topic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin, or topicals, or who cannot use topical therapies. Ebglyse can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to Ebglyse. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. I-problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have newer worsening eye problems, you should not receive a live vaccine when treated with Ebglyse. Before starting Ebglyse, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Paid partnership with Lily. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about Ebglyse and visit Ebglyse.com, or call 1-800-LilyRX or 1-800-545-5979. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound,

13:11limit 4 rows with membership where applicable, and medium-ripe hassovacados are 99 cents each, with membership where applicable. Plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.9 to 8 ounces, are 199 each when you buy three. Limit 3 offers with membership where applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. How much couldn't I get for it? Why, without even stopping to think, I can name you a dozen collectors who'd give their right arm for it. I'm not interested in right arms, Mallory said. I'm interested in dollars. How many Kennedys could you get for it? A mega million, maybe more. More than enough certainly to permit you to retire from time lifting, and to take up residence on Get Rich Quick Street. But it doesn't exist, and it never did.

14:13So get out of here, Mallory, and stop squandering my valuable time. Mallory with viewers small stereo photo from his breast pocket and tossed it on the desk. Have a look at that first. Then I'll go, he said. Perfidian picked up the photo. An ordinary enough yellow bowl, he began, and stopped. Suddenly he gasped, and jabbed one of the many buttons that patterned his desktop. Seconds later, a svelte blonde, who Mallory had never seen before, stepped out of the lift tube. Like most general purpose secretaries, she wore a maximum of makeup and a minimum of clothing, and moved in an aura of efficiency and sex. Get me my photo projector, Miss Tyler, Perfidian said. When she returned with it, he set it on his desk and inserted the stereo photo.

15:16Instantly, a huge cube materialized in the center of the room. Inside the cube, there was a realistic image of a resplendent silver table, and upon the image of the table, stood an equally realistic image of a resplendent golden bowl. Perfidian gasped again. Unusual workmanship, wouldn't you say, Mallory said. Perfidian turned toward the blonde. You may go, Miss Tyler. She was staring at the contents of the cube, and apparently did not hear him. I said, he repeated, that you may go, Miss Tyler. Oh, yes, yes, sir. When the lift tube door closed behind her, Perfidian turned to Mallory. For a fraction of a second, the predator was visible behind the smokey window-pains of his eyes.

16:17Then quickly it ducked out of sight. Where was this taken, Tom? It's a distance shot, Mallory said. I took it through one of the windows of the church Joseph of Arama Thea, built in Glastonbury. But how did you know that it was there? Because it had to be there. Some time ago, while escorting a group of tourists around ancient Britain, I happened to witness Joseph of Arama Thea's landing, and happened to catch a glimpse of what he brought with him. I used to think that the grail was a pipe dream too, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I knew that it couldn't have been. However, I knew I'd need evidence to convince you, so I jumped back to a later place time and got a shot of it. But why a shot, Tom? Why didn't you lift it then and there?

17:18You concede that it is the grail then? Of course it's the grail. There's not the slightest question about it. Why didn't you lift it? Well, for one thing, I wanted to make sure that lifting it would be worth my while, and for another, Glastonbury wasn't the logical place time from which to lift it, because assuming that the rest of the legend is also true, it was seen after that place time. No time thief ever bucked destiny yet and came out the winner, Jason. I'd play my percentages. I know you do, Tom. You're one of the best time-lift men in the business, and the past police would be the first to admit it. I dare say you've already pinpointed the key place time. Mallory Grind, showing his white teeth. I certainly have, but if you think I'm going to

18:19divulge it, you're sadly mistaken, Jason. And stop looking at my hair. It won't tell you anything beyond the fact that I've been using hair haste. Shoulder length hair was the rage in more ears than one? Perfidian smiled warmly and clapped Mallory on the back. I'm not trying to ferret out your secret, Tom. I know better than that. Lifting is your line, fencing mine. You bring me the grail. I'll sell it. Take my cut, and everything will be fine. You know me, Tom. I assure you, Mallory said, taking the stereo photo out of the projector and returning it to his breast pocket. Perfidian snapped his fingers. A happy thought just occurred to me. I've got a golf date with Rowley of Pure Products. So why don't you join us, Tom? You play a pretty good game,

19:21as I recall. Mollified, Mallory said. I'll have to borrow a set of your jet sticks. I'll get them for you on the way down. Come on, Tom. Mallory accompanied him across the room. Keep mum about this to Rowley now, Perfidian said confidentially. He's a potential customer, but we don't want to let the cat out of the bag yet, do we? Or should I say the grail? He took time out to grin at his little joke, then, by the way, Tom. I take it your all set as regards costume, equipment, and the like. I've got the sweetest little suit of armor you ever laid eyes on, Mallory said. Fine, no need for me to offer any advice in that respect, then. Perfidian opened the lift door. After you, Tom, they plummeted down the tube together.

20:27It had been a good game of golf from Mallory's standpoint anyway. He had trounced Rowley roundly, and he would have inflicted similar ignominy upon Perfidian, had not the ladder been called away in the middle of the game and been unable to return until it was nearly over. Oh well, Mallory thought, and cephalogue guiding his row horse through the ancient forest. There will be other chances. Allowed, he said. Step lively now, easy money, and let's get this caper over with, so we can return to civilization and start feeling what it's like to be rich. In response to the encephalogue waves that had accompanied his words, easy money increased its pace, the infrared rays of its eye units illuminating its way. In places light from the rising moon seeped through the foliage, but otherwise darkness was the rule. The air was cool and damp,

21:30the sea was not far distant, and the sound of frogs and insects was omnipresent, and now and then there was the rustling sound of some small and fleeing forest creature. Presently the ground began to rise, and not long afterward the trees thinned out temporarily, and Rowhorse and Rider emerged on the moonlit crest of the ridge that separated the two valleys. In the distance Mallory made out the moon-gilt towers and turrets of a large castle, and knew it to be carbonic beyond a doubt. He sighed with relief. He was all set now, provided his masquerade went over. Conversely, if it didn't go over, he was finished. His sword and his spear were his only weapons, and his shield and his armor his only protection. True, each article was superior in quality and durability to its corresponding article in the

22:34age of shivalry, but otherwise none of them was anything more than what it seemed. Mallory might be a time thief, but within the framework of his profession he believed in playing fair. In response to his encephalopath directions, easy money picked its way down the slope of the ridge and re-entered the forest. Not long afterward it stepped onto what was euphemistically referred to in that day and age as a highway, but which in reality was little more than a wide hoof-trampled lane. As Mallory's entire plan of action was based on boldness, he spurned the shadows of the bordering oaks and beaches and encephalopath the row-horse to keep to the center of the lane. He met no one, however, despite the early-ness of the hour, nor had he really expected to. It was highly improbable that any Freeman would be abroad after dark, and as for the night

23:40who happened to be in the neighborhood. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit 4 roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe hassovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable, plus Kellogg's cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.98 ounces are 190.9 each when you buy three, limit three offers with membership were applicable, visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. It's fall in Jeep Country, and during the driving to fall sales event, get a great deal on 4x4s that refuse to be contained, like Jeep Wrangler, confidence built into every drive with the most awarded SUV ever, Jeep Grand Cherokee, and freedom that can't be denied, with the open-air freedom and Jeep Gladiator. After 85 years, it's no surprise that Jeep became America's SUV brand, get a great deal during the Jeep driving to fall sales event. Jeep is one more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV brand, Jeep and the Jeep Grill Registered Trademarts of FCA US LLC.

24:43This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit 4 roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe hassovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable, plus Kellogg's cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.98 ounces are 199 each when you buy three, limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. It was highly improbable that any of them would be a broad after-dark either. He grinned. To read Lamort D'Arter, you'd think that the chivalry boys had been in business 24 hours a day slaying ogres, rescuing fair damsels and searching for the Sangreol, but not if you read between the lines. Mallory had read Arter only cursorally, but he had had a hunch all along

25:45that in the majority of cases the quest for the Sangreol had served as an out, and that the nights of the table round had spent more time wetching and wascelling than they had conducting their so-called dedicated search, and the hunch had played an important role in the shaping of his strategy. The highway turned this way and that, never pursuing a straight course unless such a logical procedure was unavoidable. Once he thought he heard hoofbeats up ahead, but he met no one, and not long afterward he saw the pale pile of carbonic looming above the trees to his left, and and cephalogguided easy money into the lane that led to the entrance. There was no mode, but the port-colus was an imposing one. Flanking it on either side was a huge stone lion, and framing it were flaming torches in regularly spaced niches.

26:48Worders in Habergan Helmet looked down from the lofty wall, their hallbirds gleaming in the dancing torchlight. Mallory swallowed. The moment of truth had arrived. He halted easy money and canted his white shield so that the red cross in its center would be visible from above. Then he marshalled his smattering of old English. I heights her galle ahead of the table round, he called out in his bold of voices he could muster. I would rest my eyes upon the Sangreal. Instantly confusion rang upon the wall, as the Worders vied with one another for the privilege of operating the cumbersome windlass that raised and lowered the port-colus, and presently to the accompaniment of a chorus of creeks and groans and scrapings, the ponderous iron-grating began to rise. Mallory forced himself to wait until it had risen to a height befitting a night of Sir Galaad's

27:53caliber, then he rode through the gateway and into the courtyard, congratulating himself on the effectiveness of his impersonation. He will come onto the chamber of the Sangreal, sixty paces down the corridor to thy left, if soon ye enter the chief fortress, Sir Knight, one of the Worders called down, and he had arrived a little while before he had encountered Sir Lanzelad Dulac, the witch did come onto the fortress and enter in, wherefrom he came out anon and departed. Mallory would have wiped his forehead if his forehead had been accessible, and if his hands had not been encased in metal gloves. Fooling the Worders was one thing, but passing himself off his Sir Galaad to the man who was Sir Galaad's father would have been quite another. He had learned from the pages of his near-neem-sakes Arter that Sir Lanzelad had visited Carbonic before Sir Galaad

28:56had, but the pages had not revealed whether the time lapse had involved minutes, hours, or years, and for that matter Mallory wasn't altogether certain whether the second visit they described had been the real Sir Galaad which meant failure, or a romanticized version of his own, which meant success. His near-neem-sake was murky at best, and reading him you were never sure where anybody was, or when any given event was taking place. The courtyard was empty, and after crossing it, Mallory dismounted and Cephalopath easy money to stay put and climbed the series of stone steps that led to the castle proper. Entering the building unchallenged, he found himself at the junction of three corridors. The main one stretched straight ahead and debushed into a large hall.

29:56The other two led off at right angles, one to the left and one to the right. Boyster's laughter emanated from the hall, and he could see knights and other noble sitting at a long banquet table. Scattered among them were gentlewomen in rich silks, and hovering behind them were servants bearing large demi-jons. He grinned. Just as he had figured, King Pellis was throwing a wing-ding. Quickly Mallory turned down the left-hand corridor and started along it, counting his footsteps. Rushes rustled beneath his feet, and the flickering light of wall torches gave him a series of grotesque shadows. He saw no one. All the servants were in the banquet hall, pouring wine and mead. He laughed aloud. Forty-eight paces suffice to see him to the chamber door. It was a

31:01perfectly ordinary door. Opening it, he thought at first that the room beyond was ordinary too. Then he saw the burning candles arranged along the walls and beneath them, standing in the center of the floor, the table of silver, the table of the sangre all. There was no sangre all on the table, however. There was no sangre all in the room for that matter. There was a girl, though. She was huddled fallorantly in a corner, and she was crying. End of section one, recording by Roger Malene. Section two of A Night There Was. This livervox recording is in the public domain, recording by Roger Malene. A Night There Was by Robert F. Young. Section two.

32:07Mallory laid his spear aside, strode across the room, and raised the girl to her feet. The sangre all, he said, forgetting in his agitation the few odds and ends of old English he had memorized. Where is it? She raised startled eyes that were as round and almost as large as plums. Her face was round too and faintly childlike. Her hair was dark brown and done up in a strange and indeterminate quaffir that was as charming as it was disconcerting. Her ankle length dress was white, and there was a bow on the bodice that matched the plumblunus of her eyes. A few cosmetics, properly applied, would have turned her into an attractive woman, and even without them, she rated a second look. She stared at him for some time, then, surely he'd be an advision, sir,

33:08she said. I know ye not. Mallory swung his shield around so that she could see the red cross now do you know me? She gasped and her eyes grew even rounder. Sir, sir the gallahad, oh fair night, wherefore did he not say? Mallory ignored the question. The sangre all, he repeated, where is it? Her tears had ceased temporarily, now they began again. Oh fair sir, she cried, ye sea to for you a damsel at mischief, the witch was given guardianship of the holy vessel at her own request and braid her trust, a damsel. Never mind all that, Mallory said. Where's the sangre all? I what not fair sir? But you must know if you were guarding it. I what not whether it was taken. But you must what who took it?

34:13What high well fair night? Sir Lancelot, the witches thy father, bear it from the chamber. Mallory was stunned. But that's impossible. My fa- Sir Lancelot wouldn't steal the sangre all. Well, I what fair sir, yet still it he did. Came he unto the chamber and sayeth, I heights her Lancelot du- Lake of the table round, whereat I did see his armor to be none other. So then took he the vessel covered with the red s'mite and bear it with him from the chamber, whereat I, how long ago? But a little while a for eight of the clock. Sith and I have wept. I know now no good night nor no good man. And I know from thy holy shield and from thy good name that thou art a good night, and I beseech ye therefore to help me. For ye be a shining night indeed, wherefor ye ought not to fail no damsel which is in distress,

35:19and she be sought you of help. Mallory only half heard her. Salon Salat was too much with him. It was inconceivable that a night of such noble principles would even consider touching the sangre all, to say nothing of making off with it. Maybe though his principles hadn't been quite as noble as they had been made out to be. He had been Queen Gwenevere's paramour, hadn't he? He had lain with the fair Elaine, hadn't he? When you come right down to it, he could very well have been a scoundrel at heart all along, a scoundrel whose true nature had been toned down by writers like Mallory and poets like Tennyson, all of which, while it strongly suggested that he was capable of stealing the sangre all, through not the slightest light on his reason for having done so. Mallory was right back where he had started from. He turned to the girl.

36:22You said something about needing my help. What do you want me to do? Instantly her tears stopped, and she clasped her hands together and looked at him with worshipful eyes. Oh, fair sir, you be most kind indeed. Well, I walked from the shining armor that she knock it off, Mallory said. Knock it off? I want not what, never mind. Just tell me what you want me to do. You must bear me from the castle, fair sir, or the king learns that I have be raped my trust and reach his wrath upon me. And then you must help me regain the holy cup and return it to this chamber. We'll worry about getting the cup back after we're beyond the walls, Mallory said, starting for the door. Come on, they're all in the banquet hall, and as drunk as lords, they won't even see us go by. She hung back. But the waters, fair sir, they be not

37:28in shaked, and King Pellis, by my own wish, did forbid them to pass me. Mallory stared at her. By your own wish, well of all the crazy abruptly he dropped the subject. All right then, how do we get out of here? Their lieth beneath the fortress and the forest, a parlou passage wherein dwells the fiend, the witch I have much discomfort of. But with ye aside me, fair night, there is not to fear. Mallory had read enough Mallory to be able to take six century fiends in his stride. I'll have to take my horse along, he said. Is there room for it to pass? Ye, fair sir. The tale saith that a four-time many nights did ride out beneath the fortress and the forest, and did smite the sacks and sarrisons and pagans, the witch did compass the castle about

38:31from behind, whereupon the battle was won. Mallory stepped outside the chamber, the girl just beside him and in cephalopath the necessary directions. After a moment, easy money came trotting down the corridor to his side. The girl gasped into his astonishment through her arms around the Rohors' neck. He is a noble steed indeed, fair sir, she said, and worthy of a night fitting to sit in the siege perilous. Presently she stepped back, frowning. He is most cold, fair sir. All horses of that breed are, Mallory explained. Incidentally, his name is easy money. La such a strange name. Not so strange. Mallory raised his visor, making a mental note,

39:34to see to it that any and all suits of armor he might buy in the future were air-conditioned. He got his spear. Let's be on our way, shall we? Ye, ye have blue eyes, fair sir. Never mind the color of my eyes. Let's get out of here. She seemed to make up her mind about something. And ye will follow me, sir, night, she said, and started down the corridor. A ramp, the entrance of which was camouflaged by a rotating section of the inner castle wall, gave access to the subterranean passage. The passage itself, in the flickering light of the torch that the girl had brought along, appeared at first to be nothing more than a natural cave. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rost untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit four roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe, hassovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg's Serials 8.8 to

40:4016.1 ounces, selected varieties, or Pepperidge Farm Goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are 190.9 each when you buy three. Limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. It's fall in Jeep Country, and during the drive-in-to-fall sales event, get a great deal on four by fours that refuse to be contained, like Jeep Wrangler, confidence built into every drive with the most awarded SUV ever, Jeep Grand Cherokee, and freedom that can't be denied, with the open air freedom in Jeep Gladiator. After 85 years, it's no surprise that Jeep became America's SUV brand, get a great deal during the Jeep Drive-in-to-fall sales event. Jeep is one more awards over its lifetime than any of the SUV brand, Jeep and the Jeep Grill Registered Trademarks of FCAUS LLC. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Roast untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit four roasts with membership were applicable, and medium-ripe, hassovacados are 99 cents each, with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg's Serials 8.8 to

41:4216.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.98 ounces, are 1.99 each when you buy three. Limit three offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. And large through the centuries by the stream that still flowed down at center. Presently, however, Mallory saw that in certain places, the stone walls had been cut back in such a way that the space on either side of the stream never narrowed to a width of less than four feet. He saw other evidence of human handy-work too, dungeons. They were a little more than shallow caves now, though, their iron gradings having rusted and fallen away. After proceeding half a hundred yards, he paused. I don't know what we're walking for when we've got a perfectly good horse at our disposal, he told the girl. Come on, I'll help you into the saddle, and I'll jump on behind.

42:46She shook her head. No, fair night! It is not fitting for a general woman to ride to for her champion. Ye will mount, and I will ride behind. Suit yourself, Mallory said. He climbed into the saddle with a clank and a clatter and helped her up on Easy Money's crew. By the way, you never did tell me your name. I height the domes on Roena. Please, to meet you, Mallory said. Get him, Easy Money, and cephalopathed. They rode in silence for a little while, the light from Roenus torched dancing acappella rigidunes on bare walls and dripping ceilings. Easy Money's hoof beats hardly audible above the purling of the stream. Presently, Roena said, it were best that ye drew out thy sword, fair sir, for a non the fiend will be set us. He hasn't be set us yet, Mallory pointed out.

43:54La, fair sir, he will! He saw no harm in humoring her, and did as she had suggested. You mentioned something a while back about having been given gherty in ship of the sangreol at your own request, he said. How did that come about? List, fair sir, and I will tell ye. But first I must tell ye of Sir Borst de Ghanise, of which Sir Lionel is brother. It happed one day that Sir Borst did ride into a forest in the kingdom of Menus, unto the hour of midday, and there befell him a marvelous adventure. So he met at the departing of the two ways, two nights that led Lionel, his brother, all naked, bound in upon a strong hackney, and his hands bound in to for his breast. And every each of them held in his hands thorns, wherewith they went beating him so sore that the

44:57blood trailed down more than in a hundred places of his body, so that he was all blood to for and behind. But he said never a word. As he which was great of heart, he suffered all that never they did to him as though he had felt none anguish. Anon Sir Borst dressed him to rescue him that was his brother, and so he looked upon the other side of him, and saw a knight which brought a fair gentlewoman, and would have set her in the thickest place of the forest for to have been the more sure out of the way from then that sought him. And she which was nothing assured, cried with a high voice, St. Mary, succor you made, and Anon she aspired where Sir Borst came riding. And when she came nigh him she deemed him a knight of the round table, whereof she hoped to have some comfort. And then she conjured him by the faith that he ought unto him in whose service

46:00thou art entered in, and for the faith ye owe unto the high order of knighthood, and for the noble king Arthur's sake that I suppose that made thee knight, that thou helped me, and suffer me not to be shamed of this knight. When, just a minute, Mallory interrupted, thoroughly bewildered, and simultaneously afflicted with an irrational sense of deja vu. This gentlewoman you speak of, would she by any chance be you? Which ye well, fair sir, when, but if she's you, why don't you use the first person singular instead of the third? I want not what why don't you use I instead of she, when you refer to yourself directly. It would not be fitting fair knight. When Borst heard her say thus, he had so much sorrow there he knes not what to do.

47:02For if I let my brother be in adventure he must be slain, and that would I not for all the earth. And if I help not the mage he has shamed forever, and also she shall lose her virginity, the witch he shall never get again. Then lift he up his eyes and said weeping, fair sweet lord whose leege man I am, keep lionel my brother, that these knights slay him not, and for pity of you, and for Mary's sake I shall sucker this maid. Then dressed be him unto the knight, the witch had the gentle woman, and then hissed, Mallory whispered, I heard something. For a moment the light flared wildly as though she had nearly dropped the torch. Well, whence came the sound, fair knight? From the other side of the stream,

48:02he peered into the vacillating shadows, but saw nothing but the darker shadows of one of the innumerable man-made caves. The sound he had heard had brought to mind the dull clang that metal makes when it collides with stone, and it had been so faint as to have been barely audible above the purling of the stream. Thinking back he was not altogether certain that he had heard it at all. My imagination's getting the best of me, I guess, he said presently. There is no one there. Her warm breath penetrated the crevices of his gorge and fanned the back of his neck. Ye we not that it could have been the fiend prowling? Of course I weaned not. Relax and finish your story, but get to the point, will you? And, and it's so pleased. And then Sir Borce cried, Sir Knight, let your hand off that maiden,

49:06or ye be but dead. And then he sat down the maiden and was armed at all pieces, save he lacked his spear. Then he dressed his shield and drew out his sword, and Borce smote him so hard that it went through his shield and havergen on the left shoulder. And through great strength he beat him down to the earth, and at the pulling out of Borce's spear there he swooned. Then came Borce to the maid and said, How seemeth at you of this night ye be delivered at this time? Now Sir said she, I pray you lead me there as this night had me. So shall I do gladly, and took the horse of the wounded knight and set the general woman upon him, and so brought her as she desired. Sir Knight said she, ye have better sped than ye weaned, for an I had lost my maidenhood, five hundred men should

50:10have died for it. What night was he that had you in the forest? By my faith said she, he is my cousin. So what I never with what engine that fiend and shaved him, for yesterday he took me from my father privately. For I nor none of my father's men mistrusted him not, and if he had had my maiden head he should have died for the sin, and his body shamed and disonned forever, thus as shh. This time Mallory was certain that he had heard something. The sound had had much in common with the previous sound, except that it had suggested metal scraping against rather than colliding with stone. Directly across the stream was another cave. This one shallow enough to permit the torch light to penetrate its deeper shadows, and looking into those shadows he caught a faint gleam of reflected light.

51:14Rowena must have caught it too, for he heard her gas behind him. It were best that I thank ye now for thy great kindness fair night, she said. For a non we be no longer on live. Nonsense, Mallory said. If this fiend of yours is anywhere in the vicinity he's probably more afraid of us than we are of him. The cave was behind them now. Per adventure he had already had met Rowena, said hopefully. The tale saith that in the fiend be filled he becomes a weary and be said not them the which do pass him by in peace. I'll keep my sword handy just in case he changes his mind, Mallory said. This week at Vons and Albertans, USDA choice tri-tip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound, limit for roasts with membership were applicable, and medium ripe hassovacados are

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53:19were applicable plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are 190.9 each when you buy three limit three offers with membership were applicable visit vons or Albertans.com for more deals and ways to save meanwhile get on with your autobiography only for Pete's sake cut it short will you and it please fair sir thus as the fair gentlewoman stood talking with sir bores there came 12 nights seeking after her and a non she told them all how bores had delivered her and they made great joy and besought him to come to her father a great lord and he should be right welcome truly said bores that may not be at this time for I have a great adventure to do in this country so he commended them unto god and departed the fair gentlewoman did grieve mickle to see him leave and she saith sir knights

54:26noble was the service that brave knight did render unto thy leeges daughter in the saving of her maiden head the which she could never get again for that be none other than his own brother the which he fought it therefore noble must be both his king and his cause wherefore it be befitting that a gentlewoman of thy leeges daughters nature leave the castle of her father be times that she may render fitting service to her suckers cause and be worthy of his deed thus spake this fair gentle woman where at she did mount upon her palfrey and so departed her from vents and did ride as fast as her palfrey might bear her where upon after many days she came to the castle of carbonic and did seek out king pellis and did beseech him that she might be made guardian of the sangreol where at he did graciously consent to her request and did consent also that she be made prisoner in

55:30the fortress by her own wish and now she was braid her trust fair sir and the table of silver where on the sangreol stood stands empty for some time after she finished talking Mallory was silent was she trying to pull his leg he wondered or with a gentlewoman of her day and age really as high-minded and as feather-brained as she would have him believe he decided not to go into the matter for the moment tell me roena he said if the sangreol is visible only to those who were worthy of it as I have been led to believe how are any of those washillers whooping it up back there in that banquet hall going to know whether it's gone or not it be off times a verred that it all cannot see the holy cuck as ye say fair night now the less all that have come into the chamber said then my trust began they did see it

56:35and sir lancelot the which is much with sin he did see it and did take it he's not going to get very far with it though Mallory said and then how long is the tunnel anyway a nun we shall see the stars fair sir she was right and a few minutes later after rounding a turn in the passage they emerged upon the bank of a small river the subterranean stream that had kept them company emerged too and joined its larger sister on the way to the sea on either hand cliffs rose up and the cessaurus of waves breaking on sand could be heard in the distance Mallory guided easy money upstream to where the cliffs dwindled down to thickly forested slopes it took him but a moment to orientate himself and presently row horse and riders were headed in

57:36the direction of the highway now said he if you'll tell me where you want to be dropped off I'll see what I can do about getting the grail back there was a brief silence then and and you wish you may leave me here he halted easy money dismounted and lifted her down to the ground he looked around expecting to see a habitation of some sort he saw nothing but trees he faced the girl again don't you have any friends or relatives you can stay with an urgent shaft of moonlight slanting down through the foliage illumined her face there'd be none nigh fair sir nor none near than a hundred miles I shall abide you again coming here in the forest Mallory stared at her she didn't look or act either for that matter as though

58:41she knew enough to get in out of the rain abide here in the forest why you wouldn't last a week but ye will return hither with the song today all long before that where upon we too together shall return the holy vessel to the chamber and I shall not be made to suffer the severing of my two hands he was a guest they wouldn't dare cut off your hands they dare much fair night no ye not of the customs of the land he was silent what in the world was he going to do about her she would probably wait here for him until she starved to death or equally as distressing until she was apprehended abruptly he shrugged his shoulders to the extent that his poldrins permitted and remounted the row horse why shouldn't matter to him what became of her he'd returned to the age

59:46of chivalry to steal the sangre al not to play nurse made to damsels and distress don't take any wooden knuckles now he said two tiny stars appeared in the pale regions of her eyes and twinkled down her cheeks may the good lord speed ye upon thy quest fair night and may he guard ye well oh for Pete's sake Mallory said and reaching down pulled her up onto easy money's crew I have a castle not far from here I'll drop you off then I'll go after the sangre al her breath was warm little wind seeping through the crevices of his gorge it oh fair sir ye be the noblest of all the nights in all the land and I shall serve thee faithfully for the rest of my days the row horse winnyed giddy up easy money Mallory and cephala pathed and they started out

1:00:53end of section two recording by Roger Malene section three of a night there was this libravox recording is in the public domain recording by Roger Malene a night there was by Robert F. Young section three Rowena fell for the yore hook line and singer not even the modern interior gave her pause those objects which happened to be beyond her chem and there were many of them she interpreted as appointments befitting a noble night and as for the rooms themselves she merely identified them with the rooms out of her own experience that they most closely resembled thus the wreck hall became the banquet hall the supply room became the kitchen the control room became the sorcerer's tower

1:01:58the tourist compartments became the sleeping tower Mallory's bedroom office became the lord's quarters the lavatory became the chapel and the generator room became the dungeon only two things disconcerted her the absence of servants and the fact that easy money was stableed in the banquet hall Mallory got around the first by telling her that he had given the servants a leave of absence and she herself got around the second by declaring it to be no more than fitting for such a splendid steed to be accorded special treatment certainly Mallory reflected she was nothing if she was not cooperative after showing her around he wasted no time in getting down to the business on hand and stepping into the control room he punched out the data necessary to take the yore back to 715 pm of the same day and to rematerialize it one half mile west of its present position

1:03:02as an overlap was bound to occur there was a barely noticeable tremor as the transition took place and simultaneously the darkness showing in the control room telewindow transmuted to dusk turning away from the jumpboard he saw Rwina regarding him with large eyes from the doorway we're now back to a point in time that precedes the theft of the sangreol he told her and were relocated farther down the valley but don't let it throw you none other than Merle and himself built the magic apparatus you see before you in this room this week at Vons and Albertsons USDA choice tri-tip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound limit four roasts with membership were applicable and medium-ripe hasovicados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are

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1:05:05nine each when you buy three limit three offers with membership were applicable visit vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save and you know yourself that once he makes up his mind to it Merlin can do anything she blinked once but evens to no other signs of surprise yay fair sir she said I am aware of the magic of Merlin however Mallory went on magic such as this isn't something for a general woman such as yourself to fool around with so I must forbid you to enter this room during my absence from the castle also while we're on the subject I must also forbid you to leave the castle during my absence Merlin would be upset no end if there were two damsels that height Rowena Galavantan around the countryside at the same time she blinked again by my trough fair sir she said I would lever die then disobey thy two command and then

1:06:14have ye ate any meat late this time Mallory blinked meat it is fitting that you should eat meat before you ride out oh you mean food I'll eat when I get back but there's no need for you to wait he took her into the supply room and showed her where the vacuum tins were stored you open them like this he explained pulling one out and activating the deceler then as soon as the contents cool off a little you sit down to dinner but this be not meat she objected maybe not but it's a good substitute and a lot better for you a thought struck him and he took her into the lavatory and showed her how to operate the hot and cold water dispenser ascribing the setup to more of Merlin's magic he debated on whether to explain the function and purpose of the adjacent shower decided not to there was a limit to all

1:07:20things and an apparatus for washing one's whole body was simply too far fetched for anyone living in the sixth century to take seriously back in the wreck hall he donned his helmet and gauntlets reset the gauntlet timepiece picked up his spear and an cephalopath easy money to his side mounting he set the spear in the stirrup socket Rauena gazed up at him plumb blue eyes round with awe and admiration and concern which he well fair sir she said that sir lance lot the which is thy father is a knight of many victories and therefore he must take care Mallory grinned dismay you not fair damsel else might him from his steed before he can say queen greniveer he straightened his sword belt activated the yours lock and rode across the mirage

1:08:22molten entered the forest the port colis closed behind him dusk had become darkness by the time he reached the highway approximately half an hour later he would reach the highway again however the seeming paradox did not disconcer at him in the least this was far from being the first time he had backtracked himself on a job as before he spurned the shadows of the bordering oaks and beaches and in cephalopath easy money to keep to the center of the lane and as before no one was a broad probably king pellis's wasle was already in progress or if not the goodly knights and general women were still at even song in any event he reached the lane that led to the castle of carbonic without mishap after entering the lane he encephalopath easy money into the

1:09:23concealment of the shadows of the bordering trees and settled back in the saddle to wait roenas placing the time of the theft at a little while a four eight of the clock had been a general estimate at best hence he had allowed himself plenty of leeway and had arrived in the scene a little early it was well that he had for hardly a minute past before he heard hoofbeats approaching from the south and presently he saw a tall knight a stride a resplendent steed turn into the lane his armor gleamed in the moonlight and bespoke a quality and class that only a night of sir lancelot status would be able to afford malorie watched him ride down the lane to the lion flanked entrance and heard him announce himself as sir lancelot the port cullis was raised without delay and the knight rode through the gateway and disappeared from view malorie frowned

1:10:28in the darkness something about the incident had failed to jive he thought back but he could isolate nothing that in retrospect anyway seemed in the least incongruous he tried again with the same result and at length he concluded that the note of discord had originated in his imagination again he settled back to wait he wasn't particularly worried about the outcome of the forth coming encounter the superiority of the weapons and armor should be more than enough to see him through but just the same he wished there was some way to avoid it there wasn't of course sir lancelot's theft of the sangreol was already incorporated in fact and as a fit accompli could not be abviated by a previous theft all malorie could do was to make his move after the fate accompli in the hope that that was when he had made his move a time thief didn't have nearly

1:11:34as much leeway as his seeming freedom of movement might lead the uninitiated to believe about all he could do was to play along with destiny and await his opportunities if destiny smiled he succeeded if destiny frowned he did not however malorie was optimistic about his forthcoming bid for the grail for if it wasn't in the books for him to rest the cup from sir lancelot the chances were he wouldn't have gotten as far as he had he estimated that it would take the man five minutes to enter the castle proceed to the chamber seize the sangreol return to the courtyard and come riding back to the port colis seven minutes proved to be nearer the mark in response to a hail from within the wall several of the warders bent to the windless whereupon the port colis scraped and groaned aloft and the tall knight came riding out just as the hands of malorie's time

1:12:39piece registered seven forty three p.m. Malorie let him pass straining his eyes in vain for glimps of the sangreol he waited till sir lancelot was half a hundred yards down the highway before he and cephalopathed easy money to follow and he waited till abend in the road hid the castle of carbonic from view before in cephalopathing the command to charge at this point sir lancelot became aware that he was no longer alone and wheeled his steed around without an instant cessitation he dressed his spear and launched a counter charge all malorie could think of was a twentyth century steam locomotive bearing down upon him he swallowed grimly a ventured his own spear and upped easy money's pace two could play it being locomotives the approaching night and steed loomed larger the sound of

1:13:40hoofbeats crescendoed into staccato thunder the spear pointing straight toward malorie's breastplate had something of the aspect of a jet propelled flagpole hurriedly he got his shield into position maybe the man would spot the red cross realize its significance and slow down if he spotted it he gave no sign and only came the faster malorie braced himself for the forthcoming impact however the impact never occurred at the last moment his antagonist directed this spear point at malorie's helmet did something that made it separate itself from the shaft to the accompaniment of a gout of incandescence and come streaking through the air like a little comet malorie tried to dodge but he would have been equally a successful if he had tried to dodge a real comet there was a deafening clang in the region of his left audio amplifier and the whole

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1:16:50what comes after f the boy mallery squirmed in his abc chair i don't know what comes next and i don't care i'll box your ears the renta robegaard threatened you wouldn't dare yes i would i'm a physical chastisement model you know now we'll try once more a is for atom b is for bomb c is for conform d is for dollar e is for economy and f is for fun what comes after f f i told you that i didn't know and that i didn't care i warned you said the renta robegaard ow the boy mallery cried ow the man mallery groaned sitting up in the weeds beside the early

1:17:52sixth century highway all was silenced around him if you discounted the stridulations of insects and the be keep caracarac caracarac of frogs a few yards away easy money stood immobile in the moonlight mallery raised his hand to his helmet and felt the sizeable dent that the spear pointed made gingerly he took the helmet off who in the world would have dreamed that they had jet rifles in this day and age the absurdity of the thought snapped him back to full awareness a moment later he remembered the peel of familiar laughter per fidion the man must have wanted the grail desperately to have come after it himself which meant that it was probably worth much more than he had let on but how had he known when and where to essay the lift more specifically how had he found out when

1:18:55and where to essay the lift on such short notice mallery thought back he was reasonably certain that he had made no slips of the tongue during his visit to the per fidion tower and during the ensuing game of golf and he was equally certain that he had let fall no revealing references to the place time he had so carefully pinpointed where then had he gone astray suddenly way back in his mind per fidion said by the way Tom I take it you're all set as regards costume equipment and the like I've got the sweetest little suit of armor you ever laid eyes on mallery heard himself answer he swore so that was it all per fidion had needed to do was to make the rounds of the costumers who specialize in armor and to shell out a few Kennedys to the one mallery had patronized last

1:19:56then in possession of the knowledge that mallery was embarking into the past as Sir Gala had all per fidion had had to do was to consult one of the many experts he kept at his back in call the expert had undoubtedly told him where Sir Gala had was supposed to have found the grail before taking it to Sir As and equally as important approximately when the event was supposed to have taken place further questions could not have failed to elicit the additional information that Sir Lonsolot had come to the chamber of the Sangreal before Sir Gala had had and from this per fidion had undoubtedly deduced that Sir Lonsolot could very well have been a time thief in disguise too and that the man having arrived in the scene first could very well have been responsible for the grails so called return to heaven despite what legend said to the contrary certainly it had been

1:20:58a gamble worth taking and obviously per fidion had taken it and won the jackpot but that didn't mean he was going to keep the jackpot not by a long shot Mallory and Sephalopath easy money to his side and pulled himself to his feet with the help of the left stirrup and hung his helmet in the pommel then he picked up his spear and clambered into the saddle where not beat yet easy money he said get it up easy money winning stamped its feet and started back toward the yore a short while later they passed the lane that led to the castle of carbonic presently Mallory heard the clip clop of approaching hoofbeats and not wanting to risk an encounter in his weakened condition he encephalogue guided the row horse off the highway and into the deep shadows of a big oak

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1:24:08section four of a night there was this libravox recording is in the public domain recording by Roger Malene a night there was by Robert F. Young section four Rowena nearly threw a fit when Mallory rode into the wreck hall oh fair night jeep he sorely wounded indeed she cried helping him down from his row horse certs and he bleeds so much he may die Mallory's head was throbbing and he saw two damsels that height Rowena instead of only one I'll be alright after I lie down for a while he said and don't worry about the bleeding it's almost stopped he took a step in the direction of his bedroom office staggered and would have fallen if she hadn't caught his arm her strength astonished him for all the lightness of his armor

1:25:09it still lent him an overall weight of some 210 pounds and yet the shoulder which she provided for him to lean on did not give once all the way to his bedside she had his pauldrons breastplate and arm coverings off in no time flat his quisses greets and solrits followed the last he remembered was lying there in his undergarments and his chainmail vest with three faces swimming in the misted sea of his vision each of them invested with the peculiar beauty that concerned and concern alone can grant how is momikin's little man now the renta momikin asked applying soothing set herself to the boy Mallory swollen ear he hit me momikin the boy Mallory sobbed just because I wouldn't tell him that G stands for geography I hate geography I hate it hate it nasty old renta roba gog momikin sent him away he was an old model that got rented

1:26:19out by mistake is momikin's little man's ear all right now the boy Mallory sat up I want my real he began the man Mallory sat up I want my real he began I have great joy of thy swift recovery fair sir Rowena said she was perched on the edge of his bed applying a cool and soothing ointment to his ear on the table by the bed lay a basin of water and on her lap lay a pink tube he grabbed the looked at the label set a cell he sighed with relief where did you find it he asked La fair sir when he did seem no longer on live I did run both toward and forward in the castle seeking a magical sav whereby I might sucker ye where upon I did come to a white box in the

1:27:20chapel wherein lay many magical tubes of diverse colors and natures where of I did choose one and Mallory was incredulous you chose a tube at random he demanded good lord it might have contained a counter agent that could have killed me the the letters thereon seemed of a magical nature fair night and and the color was seemingly well anyway it was the right one he looked at her could she read he wondered he was tempted to ask her but refrained for fear of embarrassing her in that same white box he said you will find a big bottle filled with round red pellets would you get it for me when she returned with it he took two of the pills then he laid his head back on the pillow they'll restore the blood I lost he explained but in order for them to do the job properly

1:28:28I've got to lie perfectly still for at least one hour she sat down in the edge of the bed Mary the magic of Merlin is marvelous albeit not as marvelous as the magic of Joseph of Eremathia what did he do that was so marvelous the plum blue eyes were fixed full upon his face ye wit not of the tale of the white shield ye bear fair sir list and I will tell ye it be fell after the passion of our lord thirty two year that Joseph of Eremathia the gentle night the witch took down our lord off the holy cross at that time departed from Jerusalem with a great party of his kindred with him and so he labored till that they came to a city that height Sirass and at that time hour that Joseph came to Sirass there was a king that height Evelake

1:29:30that had great war against the Saracens and in especially against one Saracens the witch was king Evelake's cousin a rich king and a mighty which marched nigh this land and his name was called tolamelafiantes so on a day these two met to do battle then Joseph the son of Joseph of Eremathia went to king Evelake and told him he should be discomfort and slain but if he left his belief of the old law and believed upon the new law and then there he showed him the right belief of the holy trinity to the witch he agreed unto with all his heart and there this shield was made for king Evelake in the name of him that died upon the cross and then hold it a minute Mallory said this shield you finally got around to mentioning is it the same one that you set out to tell me about which he well fair sir and then

1:30:33through king Evelake's good belief he had the better of king tolamel for when Evelake was in the battle there was a cloth set afore the shield and when he was in the greatest peril he left put away the cloth and then his enemy saw a figure of a man on the cross where through they all were discomfort and so it befell that a man of king Evelakes was smitten his hand off and bear that hand in his other hand and Joseph called that man unto him and bade him go with good devotion touched the cross and as soon as that man had touched the cross with his hand it was his whole as ever it was to fore then soon after they fell a great marvel that the cross of the shield at one time vanished away that no man wished where it became and then king Evelake was baptized and for the most part all the people of that city so soon after Joseph would depart and king Evelake would

1:31:39go with him whether he would or knald and so by fortune they came into this land that at the time was called great Britain and there they found a great felon pain him that put Joseph into prison and so a great what Mallory asked in one sense the story was familiar to him but what bothered him was the fact that it was familiar in another sense too a sense he couldn't put his finger on a wicked unbeliever in our Lord and so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that height Mondromes and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph and so he came into the land of great Britain and disinherited this felon pain him and consumed him and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison and after that all the people were turned to the Christian

1:32:40faith not long after that Joseph was laid in his deadly bed and when king Evelake say that he made much sorrow and said for thy love I have left my country and Sith ye shall depart out of this world leave me some token of yours that I may think on you Joseph said that will I do full gladly now bring me your shield that I took you when you went into battle against King Tala me then Joseph bled at the nose so that he might not by no means be staunched and there upon that shield he made a cross of his own blood now may ye see a resemblance that I love you for ye shall never see this shield but ye shall think on me and it shall be always as fresh as it is now and never shall man bear this shield about his neck but he shall repent it unto the time that Gala had the good night bear it and the last of my

1:33:44lineage shall have it about his neck that shall do many marvelous deeds now said King Evelake where shall I put this shield that this worthy night may have it ye shall leave it there as Nassian the hermit shall be put after his death for Thither shall that good night come the fiftieth day after that he shall receive the order of knighthood and so when Mallory awoke Ruin his head was resting on his chest and she was breathing the soft and even breaths of untroubled sleep her hair viewed thus closely was not as dark as he had first believed it to be it was brown really rather than dark brown and astonishingly lustrous without thinking he rested his hand lightly upon her head she stirred then and sat up rubbing her plum blue eyes for a moment she stared at him uncomprehendingly then

1:34:51prithi forgive me fair sir she said Mallory sat up too forgive you for what go open a couple of vacuum tins while I get into my armor I'm going to bring this caper to her clothes thai thai strength has returned I never felt better in my life in the wreck hall he said sitting down at the table before one of the two vacuum tins she had opened you never did ask me what happened ye will tell me of thy own will and ye wish me to know Mallory took a mouthful of simulstake chewed and swallowed your sir lancelot turned out to be a phony and pulled a rabid out of his helmet the nature of which I'd better not try to describe to you eyes round his plums she regarded him across the table a a phony fair sir Mallory nodded that's a sort of felon pain him who plays gulp

1:36:01but with my own eyes I did see his armor fair night that's right you saw his armor but you didn't see him a certain character by the name of Perfidian was residing behind that hardware not the good sir lancelot Perfidian Mallory grinned Sir Jason Perfidian a night errant he wit not of but the tournament's not over yet and this time I've got the rabid he thinks I'm dead he he left he for dead fair sir that he did and if that little brainbuster of his had struck just one inch to the right I'd have been just that he shoved his empty vacuum tin away and stood up excuse me a minute I've got to visit the sorcerer's tower again in the control room he took the

1:37:02yore back to 720 pm of the day and rematerialized at half a mile farther down the valley turning he saw that Rauena had followed him and was watching him from the doorway whereabouts may I find oats that I may feed thy horse fair night she asked easy money doesn't eat he Mallory paused astonished at two of the largest tears he had ever seen coalesced in her eyes and went tumbling down her cheeks oh it's not that he's sick he rushed on it's just that horses like him don't require food to keep them going why easy money is guaranteed for he'll live another thirty years the sun came up beyond the plum blue horizons of her eyes it pleased with me michael to hear you speak thus fair night I I have great joy of him

1:38:06back in the wreck hall Mallory pulled on his gauntlets reset his timepiece and on his helmet the left audio amplifier was shot but otherwise the piece was in good condition aside from the dent of course he encephalopath easy money to his side hung his shield around his neck and mounted hand me my spear will you Rauena he asked she did so it's fall in jeep country and during the driving to fall sales event get a great deal on four by fours that refuse to be contained like jeep rankler confidence built into every drive with the most awarded SUV ever jeep grand Cherokee and freedom that can't be denied with the open air freedom and jeep gladiator after 85 years it's no surprise that jeep became america's SUV brand get a great deal during the jeep driving to fall sales event jeep is one more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV brand jeep in the Jeep grille register trademarts of fca uslc toyotas easy choice sales event is on whether you're

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1:40:11she said for to set so little store by thine own life in the service of a damsel though which is undeserving of thy deeds i i would lever that jeep force took the sangria than jeep before done her concern touched him and he removed his helmet and leaned down and kissed her on the forehead keep the home fires burning he said then setting his helmet back in place he activated the lock rode across the mirage moat and set forth into the forest once again end of section four recording by Roger Malene section five of a night there was this libravox recording is in the public domain recording by Roger Malene a night there was by Robert F. Young section five

1:41:18this time when he reached the crest of the ridge that separated the two valleys malorie took an asmoth and the towers of carbonic and cephalo fed the direction to easy money and programmed the animal to proceed in as straight a course as possible in the east the moon was just beginning to rise in the west traces of the sunset lingered blood red just above the horizon on the highway below a night sitting astride a brown row horse and bearing a white shield with a red cross in the center was riding toward carbonic to challenge a 22nd century felon painum in imitation age of chivalry armor in the valley malorie had just left behind him there were two castles named yore and soon a third would pop into existence and yet another malorie come riding out malorie grinned it was a little

1:42:18bit like playing chess the forest which easy money presently entered was park like in places and sometimes the trees thinned out into wide moonlit meadows crossing one of the meadows malorie saw the first star and when it length easy money emerged on the highway the heavens were decked out in typical mid-summer panoply the row horse had followed its programming almost perfectly and had emerged at a point just south of the lane leading to the castle of carbonic all malorie had to do was to encephalo guide it farther down the highway to a point beyond the sight of the forthcoming jowst while doing so he kept well within the concealing shadows of the bordering oaks and beaches where the ground was soft and could give forth no telltale clip clop of hoofbeats his circumspection

1:43:19proved wise as in one sense of course it already had and when the faults sir Lancelot came riding by on his way to the castle and the chamber of the sangre all he was no more aware of malorie the thirds presence by the roadside then he would presently be aware of malorie the seconds presence in the shadows of the trees that bordered the lane malorie the third grinned again and brought easy money to a halt just beyond the next bend which he well sir Jason that they hours be numbered he said he remained seated in the saddle feeling pretty good about the world in no time at all if his one man ambiscade came off he would be on his way back to the yore and thenced to the 22nd century and a haircut selling the sangre all without the aid of a professional time fence like

1:44:20perfidian would be difficult of course but it could be done and once it was done he malorie could take his place on get rich quick street with the best of them and no questions would be asked there was to be sure the problem of what to do about a certain damsel that height roena but he would face that when he came to it maybe he could drop her off a dozen years in the future in a region far enough removed from carbonic to ensure her safety he would see at this point in his reflections he was jolted into alertness by the sound of approaching hoofbeats a moment later he heard a second set of hoofbeats and knew that malorie the second had made his presence known presently both sets crescendoed into staccato thunder as the two knights came pounding toward each other and not long afterward there was a clank and a clatter as malorie the second went

1:45:23tumbling out of its saddle and into the roadside weeds finally the single set of hoofbeats took over again and malorie the third saw a horse and rider coming around the bend in the highway he braced himself before making his play he waited till horse and rider were directly opposite him then he encephalopath easy money to charge sir lancelot managed to get his shield up in time but the maneuver did him no good malorie spearhead struck the shield dead center and sir lancelot went sailing out of his saddle to land with an awesome clatter flat on his back on the highway he did not get up dismounting malorie removed the man's helmet it was perfidian all right there was a large bruise on the side of his head and he was out cold but he was still breathing

1:46:26next malorie looked for the sangreol perfidian had concealed it somewhere and apparently he had done the job well since the armor could not have accommodated an object of that size the hiding place had to be somewhere on the body of his horse the horse was standing quietly beside easy money in the middle of the highway it was jet black and its fetlock length trappings were blue threaded with silver otherwise the two steeds were identical malorie tumbled to the truth then went over to where the black horse was standing raised its trappings found the tiny activator button and depressed it the crew putt rose up and there in the secret compartment wrapped in red samyte lay the cause of the mounting absentee rate in king arthors court always the skeptic

1:47:29malorie raised a corner of the samyte in order to make certain that he was not being cheated instantly a reflected ray of moonlight stabbed upward into his eyes and for a moment he was blinded exercising the thought that sneaked into his mind he closed the crew putt rearranged the trappings and returned to perfidian side dragging the armor and combered man over to the black roe horse and slinging him over the saddle was no easy matter but malorie managed then he picked up perfidian's helmet and spear and set the former on the pommel and wedged the ladder in one of the stirres finally he mounted easy money and encephalopathing the black roe horse to follow set out down the highway away from the castle of carbonic make believe castles could fool the had bends but they couldn't

1:48:30fool a professional he spotted the phony towers of perfidians tsb rising above the trees before he had proceeded half a mile after raising the portcolus he got the man down from the black roe horse dragged him inside and propped him against the wreck hall bar then he got the man's helmet and spear and laid them beside him after considerable reflection he went into the control room set the time dial for june 10th 1964 the space dial for a busy intersection in downtown Los Angeles and punched out hot dog stand on the lube illusion panel satisfied he went into the generator room and short circuited the automatic throwout unit so that when rematerialization took place the generator would burn up finding a ball of heavy duty

1:49:32twine he returned to the control room tied one end to the master switch and began backing out of the tsb unwinding the twine as he went in the wreck hall he paused and grinned down at the still unconscious perfidian it's a better break than you meant to give me Jason he said and don't worry once you explain to the authorities what you're doing in a suit of 6th century armor and how you happen to open a giant hot dog stand in the middle of a traffic clogged crossroads you'll be all right it's fall in jeep country and during the driving to fall sales event get a great deal on four by fours that refuse to be contained like jeep rankler confidence built into every drive with the most awarded SUV ever jeep grand Cherokee and freedom that can't be denied with the open air freedom and jeep gladiator after 85 years it's no surprise that jeep became America's SUV brand

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1:51:33than you are now if the smog doesn't get you first he stepped through the lock jerked the twine and the castle vanished into thin air remounting easy money and encephalo pathing the black row horse to follow he started back toward the yore taking a direct route through the forest he was halfway to his destination and had just emerged into a wide meadow when he saw the night with the white shield riding toward him in the bright moon light in the center of the shield there was a vivid blood red cross when the night saw Mallory he brought his steed to a halt moonlight glimmered eerily on his shield turned his helmet to silver his armor seemed to emit an unearthly light a light that was at once terrifying and transcendent the hilt of his sword was as

1:52:34blood red as the cross on his shield so was the pommel of his spear here was righteousness incarnate here in the form of an armored man on horseback was the quintessence of the age of chivalry not the age of chivalry as exemplified by the vane and boasting nobles who had constituted nine tents of the night errantry profession and who had used the quest of the holy grail as an excuse to seek after mead and maidens but the age of chivalry as it might have been if the ideal behind it had been shared by the many instead of by the few the age of chivalry in short as it had come down to posterity through the pages of Mallory's Lamorph Doctor at length the night spoke i height surgalahad of the table round reluctantly Mallory and cephalopath his two row horses to halt and said the only thing he had left to say

1:53:41i height surtumus of the castle yore by whose leave bear ye lightnesses of the red arms and the white shield whereon shines the red cross the witch was put there by Joseph of Aramathea whilst he laid dying in his deadly bed Mallory did not answer there was silence then i would just with ye surgalahad said there it was laid right on the line the challenge the death sentence non-sense Mallory told himself he's nothing but a 19 year old kid with your row horse and your superior weapons you can unseat him in two seconds flat and once he's down that glorified junk pile he's wearing will glue him to the ground so fast he won't be able to lift a finger

1:54:44allowed he said have at me then instantly surgalahad wheeled his horse around and rode to the far side of the meadow there he wheeled the horse around again and dressed his spear moonlight danced a silvery saraband on his white shield and the blood red cross blurred and seemed to run Mallory dressed his own spear immediately surgalahad charged full speed ahead easy money Mallory and cephalopathed and the row horse took off like a rocket all he had to do was to hang on tight and the jost would be in the bag he reassured himself surgalahad spear would break like a matchstick while his own superior spear would penetrate surgalahad shield as though the shield was made of tissue paper as in a sense it really was when you compared the meadow that constituted to modern

1:55:49alloys no matter how you look at the situation the kid was in for a big letdown Mallory almost felt sorry for him the hoofbeats of horse and row horse crescendoed there was the resounding clang of steel coming into violent contact with steel Mallory's spear struck surgalahad shield dead center and snapped in two surgalahad spear struck Mallory's shield dead center and Mallory sailed over easy money's group and crashed to the ground he was stunned both mentally and physically staggering to his feet he drew his sword and raised his shield surgalahad had wheeled his horse around and now he came riding back several yards from Mallory he tossed his spear aside dismounted

1:56:50as lightly as though he wore no armor at all drew his sword and advanced Mallory stepped forward his confidence returning his spear had been defective that was it but his sword and his shield weren't and now that the kid had elected to give him a sporting chance he would teach the young upstart a lesson that he would never forget again the two men came together down came surgalahad's sixth century sword up went Mallory's twenty-second century shield there was an ear piercing clang and the shield parted down the middle a gasped Mallory stepped back surgalahad moved in sword up raised again Mallory raised his own sword caught the full force of the terrific down rushing blow on the blade his sword was cut cleanly in two his left pauldron was

1:57:56cleanly cleaved and a great numbness afflicted his left shoulder he went down he stayed down surgalahad leaned over him unbroken sword uplifted the cross in the center of the snow white shield was a bright and burning red ye must yield you as an overcome man or else I may slay you I yield Mallory said surgalahad sheathed his sword ye be not sorely wounded and sith and I desire not neither of they two steeds as be like they be as unworthy as they pieces you can return to thy castle unholpen Mallory blacked out for a moment and when he came to the shining night was gone he lay there in the moonlight for some time looking up at the stars at length he fought his

1:58:58way to his feet and in cephalopath the two row horses to his side mounting easy money he in cephalopath that to return to the westernmost castle of your and in cephalopath the other row horse to follow he left his broken weapons where they lay what had gone out of the world during the last sixteen hundred years that had left sophisticated twenty second century steel inferior in quality to naïve sixth century rod iron what did surgalahad have that he Mallory lacked Mallory shook his head he did not know the moonlit towers of the yore had become visible through the trees before it occurred to him that before riding away the man just might have removed the sangria from the black row horses crew at first thought such a possibility was too absurd to be

2:00:01entertained but not on second thought according to Lamorth d'Arterre the fellowship of surgalahad surpercival and surbors had taken both the table of silver and the sangria to serras where sometime later the sangria had been born up to heaven never to be seen again whether they had taken the table of silver did not concern Mallory but what did concern him was the fact that if they had taken the sangria they could have done so only if it had fallen into surgalahad's hands this very night tomorrow would be too late now was too late in fact provided of course that Mallory was destined to return with it to the twenty second century here then was the crossroads the real moment of truth was he destined to succeed or wasn't he hurriedly he encephalopath the two row horses to halt

2:01:09dismounted and raised the black row horses trappings he was dizzy from the loss of blood but he did not let his dizziness dissuade him from his purpose and he had the crew put raised in a matter of a few seconds he held his breath when he looked within expelled it with relief meet the red bull dragonberry energizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's this week at vans and albertsons usdh-choice tritip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound limit for roasts with membership were applicable and medium ripe hasovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are 190 nine each when you buy three limit three offers with membership were applicable visit

2:02:12vans or albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save meet the red bull dragonberry energizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's the sangriaal had not been disturbed he lifted it out of the group compartment straightened its red semi-covering and cradled it in his arms two week to remount easy money he encephalopath the two row horses to follow and began walking toward the yore rowena must have seen him coming on one of the telewindows for she had the lock open when he arrived her face went white when she looked at him and when she saw the grail her eyes grew even larger than plums he went over and said it gently down in

2:03:14the wreck hall table then he collapsed into a nearby chair he had just enough presence of mind left to send her for the bottle of blood restoreer pills and just enough strength left to swallow several of them when she brought it then he boarded the phantom ship that had mysteriously appeared beside him and set sail upon the soundless sea of night end of section five recording by Roger Malene section six of a night there was this libravox recording is in the public domain recording by Roger Malene a night there was by Robert F. Young section six no said the renta-mama-kin you cannot see her she is displeased with your score in the get-rich

2:04:17quick race i did my best the boy Mallory sobbed but when it came to stepping on all those faces i just couldn't do it the renta-mama-kin arranged its features into a severe frown and strengthened its grip on the boy Mallory's arm you knew that they were only painted on the game floor to symbolize the competitive spirit it said why couldn't you step on them the boy Mallory made a final desperate effort to gain the bedroom door which his mother had just slammed and before which the renta-mama can stood then he sank defeated to the floor i don't know why i just couldn't that's all he sobbed he raised his voice but i will step on them i'll step on real faces too just you wait and see i'll be a bigger get-rich quick man than my father ever dreamed of being i'll show her

2:05:18i'll show her the man Mallory murmured just you wait and see he opened his eyes safe for himself the bedroom office was empty roena no answer he raised his voice roena again no answer he frowned the door to the bedroom office was open and the castle certainly wasn't so large that his voice couldn't carry from one end of it to the other his shoulder throbbed faintly but otherwise he was unaware of his wound roena had bound it neatly it was said that age of chivalry gentle women were quite proficient in such matters and apparently she had once again got hold of the right counter-agent he sat up and swung his feet to the floor so far so good tentatively he stood up a wave of vertical broke over him as it passed he was as good as new

2:06:25the blood restoreer pills had done their work well nevertheless everything was not as it should be something was very definitely wrong roena he called again still no answer she had removed his armor and piled it neatly at the foot of the bed he stared at the various pieces trying desperately to think something had awakened him that was it the slamming of a door or a lock he took a deep breath he smelled green things dampness a forest had even tied he knew then what was wrong the lock of the yore had been opened and had been left open long enough for the evening air to permeate the interior of the tsb long enough in other words to have permitted someone to ride across the imaginary drawbridge that spanned the mirage mode afterward the lock had slammed back into place of its own accord

2:07:32he hurried into the wreck hall easy money stood all alone behind the tourist bar the black row horse was gone his eyes leaped to the wreck hall table the sangre always gone too he groaned the little idiot was taking it back and after he had forbidden her to leave the castle too well no he hadn't forbidden her exactly he had forbidden her to leave it during his absence he walked over to the tellow window nearest the lock and scrutinized the screen she was nowhere in sight but night was on hand and the range of his vision while considerably abetted by the light of the rising moon was limited to the nearer trees presently he frowned was it still the same night or had he been unconscious for almost 24 hours it couldn't be the same night the position

2:08:35of the moon disproved that and yet he could swear that he had been unconscious for no more than a few hours belatedly he remembered his gauntlet timepiece and returned to the bedroom office the timepiece registered 1032 but that didn't make any sense either the moon was still low in the sky he knew then that there could be but one answer and he headed for the control room post-haste sure enough the jumpboard time dial had been set for eight o'clock p.m. of the same day he looked at the space dial that had been set to rematerialize the year one half mile farther west he wiped his forehead good lord she might have sent the t.s.b all the way back to the age of reptiles even worse she might have plunked it right down in the middle of world war three

2:09:35she hadn't though in point of fact she had done exactly what she had set out to do taken the year back to a point in time from which the sanguari al could be returned to the castle of carbonic less than an hour after it had been stolen suddenly he remembered how she had watched him from the doorway of the control room each time he had reset the time and space dials technologically speaking she was little more than a child but jumpboards were as uncomplicated as modern technology could make them and a person needed to be but little more than a child to operate them grimly malerie return to his bedroom office and to go into his armor then ignoring the throbbing of his reawakened wound he mounted easy money and set out he had no weapons but it could not be helped with a little luck he would have need of none he was about due for a little luck if you asked him

2:10:38he gambled that roena would use the same route back to the chamber of the sanguari al that they had used in leaving it actually she had no other choice and he encephalo guided easy money at a fast trot in the direction of the river in the hope of overtaking her before she reached the entrance to the subterranean passage however the hope did not materialize and he saw no sign of her till he reached the entrance himself strictly speaking he saw no sign of her then either but he did discern several dislodged stones that could have been thrown up by the black rohorses horse entering the passage he frowned until that moment the incongruity of a sixth century damsel and cephalo guiding a twenty-second century rohors had not struck him after a moment though he had to admit that the incongruity was not as glaring as it had at first seemed and cephalo pathing was merely a glorified

2:11:44term for thinking and roena shortly after mounting perfidian steed must have made the discovery that she had only to think where she wanted to go in order for the rohors to take her there he had not remembered to bring a light nor did he need one the infrared rays of easy money's eye units were more than sufficient for the task on hand and overtaking the girl would have been as easy as rolling off a log if she hadn't been riding a rohors to overtaking her wasn't of paramount importance anyway he could confiscate the sanghari al after she returned it just as easily as he could before the odd part about the whole thing was that malary never once thought of the inevitable overlap till he saw the flicker of torch light up ahead an instant later he heard the sound of a woman's voice and instinctively he encephalogated easy money into a nearby shallow cave

2:12:49the flickering light grew gradually brighter and presently hoofbeats became audible the woman's voice was loud and clear now and malary made out her words above the purling of the underground stream and when he sat down the maiden and was armed at all pieces saved he lacked his spear then he dressed his shield and drew out his sword and bore smote him so hard that it went through his shield and havergine on the left shoulder and through great strength he beat him down to the earth and at the pulling of bored spear there he swooned then came boars to the maid and said how seemeth it to you of this night ye be delivered at this time now sir said she I pray you lead me there as this night had me so shall I do gladly and took the horse of the wounded night and set the general woman upon him and so brought her as she desired sir night said she ye have better

2:13:55sped than ye weaned for an I had lost my maiden head five hundred men should have died for it what night was he that had you in the forest by my faith said she he is my cousin so what I never with what engine the fiend and shaved him for yesterday he took me from my father privately for I nor none of my father's men mistrusted him not and if he had had my maiden head he should have died for the sin and his body shamed and dishonored forever thus as at this point the truth behind the sense of deja vu that Mallory had experienced the first time he had heard the tale hit him so hard between the eyes that he jerked back his head when he did so his helmet came into contact with the cave wall and scraped against the stone the row horse and its two riders were directly across the stream now sh Mallory the first whispered Rowena the first gasped hit where best that I thank

2:15:06ye now for thy great kindness fair night she said for a non we be no longer on live nonsense Mallory the first said if this fiend of yours is anywhere in the vicinity he's probably more afraid of us than we are of him per per adventure he had already had meat rowena the first said hopefully the tale saith that on the fiend be filled he becomes a weary and be set not them the which do pass him by in peace I'll keep my sword handy just in case he changes his mind Mallory the first said meanwhile get on with your autobiography only for peach sake cut it short will you on it please fair sir thus as the fair gentlewoman stood talking with sir bores there came twelve nights seeking after her and a non for a long while after the voices fade away Mallory the

2:16:09fourth could not move hearing the story the second time and more important hearing it from the standpoint of an observer he had been able to identify it for what it really was an excerpt from Lamorke Dauteur the Joseph of Aramothea bit had been an excerpt too he realized now probably lifted word for word from the text it was odd indeed that a sixth century damsel who presumably couldn't read could be on such familiar terms with a book that would not be published for another nine hundred and forty three years but not so odd if she was a twenty second century blonde in a sixth century damsels clothing remembering perfidian secretary Mallory felt sick no there was no noticeable resemblance between her and the damsel that height Rowena but the removal of a girdle

2:17:10and a quarter of a pound of makeup not to mention the application of a luster rich brown hair dye and the insertion of a pair of plum blue contact lenses could very well have brought such a resemblance into being and quite obviously had the past police were noted for their impersonations and most of them had idetic memories come on easy money Mallory and Cephalopath you and I have got a little score to settle meet the Red Bull Dragonberry Emergizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's this week at Vons and Albertsons USDA choice tri-tip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound limit for roasts with membership were applicable and medium ripe hassovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or

2:18:15peppered farm goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are 190 nine each when you buy three limit three offers with membership were applicable visit vons or Albertsons dot com for more deals and ways to save meet the Red Bull Dragonberry Emergizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's when he entered the chamber of the Sangreyal rowena the fourth was arranging the Red Samite cover around the grail she jumped when she saw him marry fair sird you did startle me me think if he be asleep in the castle knock it off Mallory said the masquerades over she regarded him with round uncomprehending eyes he got the impression that she had been crying

2:19:15the the masquerade fair night that's right the masquerade you're no more the damsel rowena than I'm the knight sir gallahad she lowered her eyes to his breastplate I I want well you be not sir gallahad fair sir it it happened that a four time I did see sir gallahad with my own eyes and when he did unlace thy unbarreur and I did see thy face I knew he could not be him of which he spake abruptly she raised her head and looked at him defiantly but I knew from thy eyes that ye be most noble fair sir and therefore and ye did pretend to be him the which ye were not ye did so for noble cause and it were not for me to question I said knock it off Mallory said but with considerable less conviction I'm on to you don't you see you're a time think

2:20:23uh a time think I want not what an agent of the past police one of those do-gooders who run around history replacing stolen goods and turning in hardworking people like myself you gave yourself away when you lifted that sir borne's bit straight out of Lamort thou turd and but I did see ye sooth fair sir sir borne's did verily sucker my maiden head I want not how there can be two of ye and two of me and four hackneys when a four there were but two and I want not how by touching the magic board in thy castle in a certain fashion that I could make the hour earlier and I want not how the magic steed I did bestried brought me hither I want not none of these matters fair sir I want only that the magic of thy castle is marvelous indeed for a while Mallory didn't say anything he couldn't in the plum blue eyes fixed full upon his face

2:21:31truth shown and that same truth had invested her every word the damsel roena despite all evidence to the contrary and despite the glaring paradox the admission gave rise to was not a phony never had been a phony and never would be a phony she was as a matter of fact with the exception of Sir Gala had the only completely honest person he had known in all his life tell me he said it length weren't you afraid to come back through that passage alone weren't you afraid the fiend would get you law fair sir I had great fear but it were not fitting that I be thought me of myself at such a time she paused then what might be thy true name sir night Mallory Mallory said Thomas Mallory

2:22:35I have great joy of thy acquaintance sir Thomas Mallory only half heard her he was looking at the semi-covered sangre all no more obstacles stood between him and his quest and time was a wasting he started to take a step in the direction of the silver table his foot did not leave the floor he was acutely aware of roena's eyes as a matter of fact he could almost feel them upon his face it wasn't that they were any different than they had been before it was just that he was suddenly and painfully cognizant of the trust and the admiration that shown in them despite himself he had the feeling that he was standing in bright and blinding sunlight again he started to take a step in the direction of the silver table again his foot did not leave the floor it wasn't so much the fact that she didn't believe he would take the sangre all that bothered him

2:23:39it was the fact that she couldn't conceive of him taking it she could be convinced that black was white perhaps and that white was black and that fiends hung out in empty caves and castles but she could never be convinced that a night of the qualities she imputed to Mallory could perform a dishonorable act and there it was laid right on the line for all the good the grail was going to do Mallory it might just as well have been at the bottom of the Mindanao deep he sighed his gamble hadn't paid off any more than Perfidians had the real Sir Gala had was the one who had inherited the grail after all not the false one the false one grinned roofily well he told the damsel Rowena it's been nice knowing you he swallowed for some reason his throat felt tight

2:24:43I imagine you'll be all right now to his amazement she broke into tears oh Sir Thomas she cried in my great haste to return the sangre all to the chamber and to write the grievous wrong committed by the untrue knight Sir Jason I did beray my trust again for when I aspide ye and me and easy money in the passage I did suffer a great discomfort and it so happed that when my steed did enter into a cave that the sangre all came free from my hands and Mallory was staring at her you dropped it stepping over to the silver table she lifted a corner of the red Samite the dent was not a deep one but just the same you didn't have to look twice to see it I I missed not what to do she said suddenly Mallory remembered the first

2:25:49sound he had heard in the passage when he and Rowena were leaving the castle of carbonic well how do you like that he said he grinned I take it that this puts your hands in jeopardy all over again right yes Sir Thomas but I would lover die then be siege the again to which Mallory continued happily makes it out of the question for a knight such as myself to leave you behind he took her arm come on he said I don't know how I'm going to fit a sixth century damsel into a twenty-second century society but believe me I'm going to try and and will you take easy money to this land whereof you speak Sir Thomas Sir Thomas grinned which ye well he said and his buddy too come on in the year he tossed his helmet and gauntlets into a corner of the wreck hall and proceeded straight

2:26:57to the control room there with Rowena standing at his elbow he set the time dial for June 21st 2178 and the space dial for the Kansas City time tourist port Lord it would be good to get home again and get a haircut here goes he told Rowena and through the switch there was a faint tremor brace yourself Rowena he said and took her over to the control room tele window together they gazed upon the screen Mallory gasped the vista of spiral suburban dwellings which he had been expecting was not in the offing and it instead was a green tree stippled countryside in the distance a castle was clearly discernible he stared at it it wasn't a sixth century job like carbonic it was much more modern but it was still a castle obviously the jump board had

2:28:05malfunctioned and thrown the yore only a little ways into the future the while leaving it in pretty much the same locale he returned to the jump board to find out just as he reached it its lights flickered and went out the time and space dials however remained aluminum long enough for him to see when and where the TSP had rematerialized the year was 1428 AD the locale warwickshire Mallory made tracks for the generator room the generator was smoking and the room with a stench of shorted wires meet the red bull dragonberry amridizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's this week at vans and albertsons usdh-choice tritip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound

2:29:10limit four roasts with membership were applicable and medium ripe hasovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces selected varieties or peppered farm goldfish 5.9 to 8 ounces are 190 nine each when you buy three limit three offers with membership were applicable visit vans or albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's he swore perfidian so that was why the man had broken with tradition and invited a common time thief to a game of golf if he had been anyone but perfidian he would have gimmick to the controls of the yore so that Mallory would have wound up directly in the 15th century sans sojorn in the

2:30:136th but being perfidian he had wanted Mallory to know how completely he was being outsmarted the chances were though that if the man had anticipated the near coincidence of the two visits to the chamber of the sangre all he would have seen to it that Mallory had never gotten a chance to use his surgallad suit returning to the control room Mallory saw that the lumalusion panel had been pre-programmed to materialize the yore as a 15th century English castle apparently it had been in the books all along for him to become a 15th century knight just as it had been in the books all along for perfidian to become the proprietor of a misplaced hotdog stand Mallory laughed he had gotten the best of the bargain after all at least there was no smog in the 15th century who was he supposed to be he wondered had his name gone down in history

2:31:20by any chance abruptly he gasped was he the Sir Thomas Mallory with estates and Northampshire and Warwickshire was he the Sir Thomas Mallory who had compiled and translated and written Lamort D'Arterd almost nothing about the man's life was known and probably the little that was known had been assumed he could have popped up from nowhere made his fortune through foreign knowledge and been knighted he could have been a reformed time thief stranded in the 15th century but if he Mallory was Mallory how in the world was he going to get 500 chapters of semi-historical data together and pass them off as Lamort D'Arterd suddenly he understood everything going over to where Rowena was still standing in front of the tele window he said

2:32:24I'll bet you no no end of stories about the doings of the nights of the table round La Sir Thomas ever I saw day of my life I have heard not else in the court of my father tell me Mallory said how did this round table business begin or better yet how did the grail business begin we can take up the round table business later on she thought for a moment then list fair sir and I will say ye at the vigil of Pentecost when all the fellowship of the round table were come into Kamalot and there heard their service and the tables were set ready to the meet right so entered into the hall a full fair gentle woman on horseback that had ridden full fast for her horse was all beswetted then she there a lit and came before the king and saluted him and he said damsel god the bless sir said she for god's sake

2:33:32say me where Sir Lancelot is yonder you may see him said the king then she went on to Lancelot and said sir Lancelot I salute you on King Pelis's behalf and I require you to come on with me hereby into a forest then Sir Lancelot asked her with whom she dwelled I dwell said she with King Pelis what will ye with me said Lancelot ye shall know said she when ye that'll do for now Mallory interrupted will come back to it as soon as I get stocked up on paper and ink sheharazad he added sheharazad Sir Thomas I want not he leaned down and kissed her there is no need for you to want he said probably he reflected he would have to do a certain

2:34:33amount of research in order to record the happenings that had ensued his and Rowena's departure and undoubtedly said research would result ironically in the recording of the true visits of Sir's gala had in Lancelot to the chamber of the Sangreyal the time slots on which he and Perfidian had gambled and lost their shirts the main body of the work however had been deposited virtually on his lap and its style and flavor had been arbitrarily determined more over contrary to what history would later maintain the job would not be done in prison but right here in the castle of Yor with Rowena sitting and dictating beside him as for the impossibility of giving a sixth century damsel as his major source that could be avoided as in one sense it already had been by making frequent illusions to imaginary French sources and as for the main obstacle to the

2:35:38endeavor his 22nd century cynicism that had been obviated during his encounter with Sir Gala had said the book wouldn't be published till 1485 but just the same he was keen to get started on it writing it should be fun which reminded him I know we haven't known each other very long in one sense Rowena he said but in another we've known each other for almost 900 years will you marry me she blinked once then her plum blue eyes showed how truly blue they could become and she threw her arms around his gorge it which he well Sir Thomas said she that there is nothing in the world but I would never do that be thy bride thus did the prose epic known successfully as Lamord Dartur the

2:36:40most ancient and famous history of the renowned Prince Arthur King of Britain as also all the noble acts and heroic deeds of his valiant knights of the round table and Lamord Dartur come to be recorded end of section 6 recording by Roger Malene end of a night there was by Robert F. Young you meet the Red Bull Dragonberry Emergizer it's one of the many new drinks out now who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire try them all only at McDonald's this week at Vons and Albertsons USDA choice tri-tip roast untrimmed are 599 per pound limit for roasts with membership were applicable and medium ripe hasovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable

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