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The King who could not Sleep. 103
in prayer. He prayed with great humility and
intensity that he might be allowed to see her who
had showed him the right way out of his misery,
and as he was concluding his prayer with, “ Oh,
kind Lord, take all I possess of earthly things—my
wealth, my splendour, my regal power—but give
me back her whom I love,” he turned around and
beheld Lilian by his side, no longer a child but a
fair maiden, and she said, “I have come to see
if thou hast made use of the remedy.”
And the king felt great joy, and all his people
with him. Garm had promised half his kingdom to
any one who should cure him of his sleeplessness,
and as Lilian now was come back he not only
offered her what was her due—half of his kingdom
—but asked her also to consent to become his queen,
and sit by his side on his throne. But before the
nuptials were celebrated with great splendour and
tournaments, Lilian asked Garm to send people to
fetch her poor old mother from the furthest end of
the kingdom, where she now in loneliness was await-
ing the return of her daughter, “for,” as Lilian said,
“it is to her thou owest gratitude for the peace in
thy heart, for when I was a child she often repeated,
‘Don’t forget. to pray, Lilian dear, if thou wishest
to sleep peacefully and have good and beautiful
dreams.’”
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