Ill

OR some days after Griffith did not
go into the forest; and Flamma,
wearing the flame-flower ever in
her breast, thought often of the
hamadryad, pitying her. Yet
when, for any moment, the flower
was not in her breast, she hated her.
On the fifth day, Flamma went to where
Griffith kept the yew-wood which he had
cut for making bows, and took the branches
and hid them.

Griffith, going to the place for more yew-
wood, found none; and so set forth once
more into the forest to cut fresh branches.
In the heat of the afternoon Flamma went
silently into the forest, and so came upon
Griffith sleeping in a glade; and, as she

waited concealed, the hamadryad came and
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