The Beginning of the Quest  
A week and a day Sir Galahad stayed at the court. Nor was he there many hours before he found that Yosalinde was not home as yet but would be within the month. Yet he would not stay, for after long and serious converse with both Merlin and Sir Launcelot, he followed the great urge to go forward. For he felt the call now greater, more insistent. Yet did he somewhat fret since this urge, this call seemed to lead him nowhere, seemed only to beckon that he go.
 
"Fret not, lad, perhaps many a year shall you wander before you find the Grail. Many places shall you go. Yet let not your way ever be impatient." So spoke the Wizard.
 
"I go to Normandy soon, Merlin."
 
"You shall find me there," now spoke Sir Launcelot, "for I too go hither to seek adventure. I pray that we meet, Galahad and that together we have many eventful days. Though full well do I know your way in great part, must be alone."
 
"That it must be," Merlin advised.
 
And so the next day and the next he stayed. From everyone and everywhere great favor was his. King Arthur, too, held much converse with him and he remembered the first days the lad had come to court and how he had ordered the herald to send him forth for Sir Launcelot and Gawaine.
 
But the day came at last when he and Walker adventured forth. And the new knight carried no shield for one was awaiting him, a shield that carried a great cross to signify his seeking. This he was to find at the convent near Carboneck. So Merlin had advised him.
 
Two days of journey passed without ontoward event but on the third day there came to him a yeoman in great woe.
 
"What grieves you, friend?" asked Walker while Sir Galahad waited.
 
"Great are my troubles for my master will surely flay me until I die. I was bringing him his best horse from the castle when a knight stopped me. Though I told him that the horse was my master's and how much store he set by it yet did he take the same from me. When I protested as best I might, he brought his sword upon me and it was fortune that I was not slain."
 
"Know you the knight?" asked Sir Galahad kindly.
 
"Nay, Sir, except that he told me he needed the horse at Calomet."
 
"I shall go hither. It is but a short journey and you may come with me. For it does not seem a knightly act, this taking of your master's horse and it needs explaining."
 
"I thank you master. For little value though my life may be, I value it nevertheless," replied the yeoman.
 
So they went on to Calomet. And when they arrived there the yeoman most fortunately espied his master's horse.
 
"Yonder, Sir Knight, is the horse," and he pointed excitedly.
 
There stood a white horse, truly a beast well worth owning. A beautiful head, a great body that showed strength and grace, set well on strong, shapely limbs. A head which its owner held right fearlessly, yet the eyes of the beast were soft and kindly and indicated that he could be ridden by child or woman.
 
"A good beast and well worth fighting for, if need be," said Walker.
 
"Yet more worthy the fight, if there is need of one, the fact that this knight we a............