Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Sergeant-At-Law's Tale: Part 3
King Alla returns to his country to find his wife and child gone. The governor tells him what he had commanded and realized the treachery of the King's mother. The King has her killed and is distraught over the loss of his wife and son. Meanwhile, the emperor of Rome hears of what has happened to his daughter in Syria and sends a senator and an army to kill the Sultan's mother and her accomplices. On their journey back to Rome they come across a ship, the very ship that Constance and her son are on. They bring the disoriented woman and child back to Rome where the Senator takes her in and provides her with food and shelter. King Alla, feeling sinful for having killed his mother, goes on a pilgrimage to Rome. He is greeted by the Senator who houses Constance, who unbeknownst to him is the man's wife. He invites the King to dinner, which the King gratefully accepts. When the King arrives he recognizes Constance and his son and they are happily reunited (after, of course, Constance finds out that it was not on the King's orders that she was sent away). Constance asks her husband to invite the emperor to meet. The emperor recognizes his daughter and they too happily reunite. Constance and her son then go with the King to England where they live for a year until the King dies. She then returns with her son to Rome to live with her father. Her son, Maurice, eventually becomes emperor of Rome.
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