It is unsullied CHAPTER VIII Before coming back on his steps, Osondel again went to the pool's shore where, some days earlier, he had met the ghosts of the young emissary Tillindayn and the sweet handmaid Cana-Marfhès. He cast the two shards of the pendant bearing the sign of the Black Stag in the water and, in a moment, the spirits of the two lovers appeared before him. It was the ghost of the girl who spoke: “Thank you, noble spirit. You have been faithful to your promise and carried out our requests. Therefore, as we had promised, here is your reward...”, she said, summoning an item slowly materializing before Osondel. My father bent to collect what had come out of the blue, and saw it was a dress of incomparable beauty. A dress which was similar in every detail to those designed an

