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UT there was Valentine to go seeking her, and there was John Ball to go with Valentine, and there was Baldwin, too, to help them.

The two had come to the well beside which Golden Hood used to sit, and from which she used to bring the water to freshen the tree. Baldwin, the old mill horse, brought them to the well, and Valentine and John Ball sat down beside it. Violets were now growing beside the well, and many blossoms were upon the tree that Golden Hood had tended. They sat down, and they talked of the maiden and of their hopes of finding her.