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Rh out, and he put on the coat he had worn at the feast, and just as he thrust his hand into his pocket for his handkerchief, he felt the book, and knew what it was.

So he gave it to his daughter, and said he was to greet her with it from the Green Knight, and she mustn't unclasp it till she was all alone.

Well, that evening when she was by herself in her bedroom she unclasped the book, and as soon as she did so she heard a strain of music, so sweet she had never heard the like of it; and then, what do you think? Why, the Green Knight came to her and told her the book was such a book that whenever she unclasped it he must come to her, and it would be all the same wherever she might be, and when she clasped it again he would be off and away again.

Well, she unclasped the book often and often in the evenings when she was alone and at rest, and the knight always came to her, and was almost always there. But her stepmother, who was always thrusting her nose into everything, she found out there was some one with her in her room, and she was not long