CHAPEL

1. "Chapel, Desolate"
   
   In this desolate chapel, located on a mountain in the vicinity of Abblasoure, Galahad heard a heavenly voice directing him to go to the Castle of Maidens and destroy the wicked customs there.
   
   
   
2. "Chapel of the Conjuration"
   Chapel of the Demon
   
   After leaving the hermit who had expounded his visions at the Chapel of the Stone Cross, Lancelot, apparently after less than an afternoon's travel, came to a chapel where an old man was laid out dead in a shirt of fine white cloth.
   
   The old religious man of the place feared that the dead man was damned because, after being a man of religion for more than a hundred years, he had put off the habit of his order. The living old man, who was probably a priest, put about his own neck a stole [a priestly garment, still required in the twentieth century before a priest may administer the sacraments] and, taking up a book, conjured up a fiend to tell him how the dead man had died and where his soul had gone.
   
   The priest and Lancelot learned from the fiend that the dead man had left his hermitage by permission, to help his nephew Aguarus win a war against the Earl of Vale. The earl had then sent two of his nephews to the hermitage for revenge.
   
   They had to burn Augurus' uncle all night in a fire before they could manage to kill him; even then, though he died, his body was left whole. The same fiend, coming in the morning, had found the naked body in the fire, removed it, and laid it out in the white shirt.
   
   The dead man's soul was in Heaven.
   
   

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   See also
   Argustus
   Helyes' Book
   
   
   
3. Chapel of the Lances
   
   An old, dilapidated church in a wasteland. On a marble tomb in the churchyard were the words:
   
   
   Do not enter. Unless you are the wretched knight who has lost the chance of finding the Holy Grail through his luxury, you cannot achieve the adventure of the churchyard.
   
   Inside was a burning tomb with twelve other tombs, each with a lance, surrounding it. When any knight entered, the lances advanced and beat him to unconsciousness. He would wake to find himself outside again. On the door of the chapel was written:
   
   
   Only the son of the Dolorous Queen can enter this churchyard without shame.
   
   Bye the Dolorous Queen was meant Elaine of Benwick; the adventure, of course, was for Lancelot.
   
   Going on from this church, one reached a fork in the road. A warning on the stone read: "Do not take the road on the left, for it will bring you to shame". This road led to Guindoel Castle. The road on the right led to Carbonek. This puts the chapel between Scotland and Listeneise.