And now let us be going, for I have much to do to-night, and would look upon this fair Venice ere I sleep.

I'll lead the way, having seen a map of the town which a traveller brought to the East.

I studied it, and now it comes back to my mind.

Stay, let that youth give me his garment," and he pointed to David Day, who wore a silk cloak like the others, "since my foreign dress might excite remark, as it did but now." In a moment Day had stripped himself of his light silk-hooded gown, and in another moment it was on the person of Murgh, though how it got there, when they came to think of it afterward, none could remember.
Still, the yellow and red head-dress, the coal-black silky furs, the yellow skirt, the gleaming pearls, all vanished beneath it.

Nothing remained visible except the white fingerless gloves--why were they fingerless, and what lay beneath them?
Hugh wondered--and the white shoes.
Forward they went across the Place of Arms, past the timber stand ornamented with banners, which Murgh stayed to contemplate for an instant, until they came to the mouth of the street up which men had followed them, apparently with evil intent.
"Sir Murgh," said Hugh, stepping forward, "you had best let me and my companion Grey Dick walk first down this place, lest you should come to harm.