Indeed I did my best to hold them back, which, perhaps, is the reason why I am alive to-day." "A strange story," said Hugh, "though I have heard something like it in other cities through which we have passed.

Well, till to-morrow at this hour, friend Basil." "We have learned two things, master," said Dick, when the lawyer had bowed himself out.

"First, that Acour is, or has been, in Avignon, and secondly, that Murgh the Messenger, Murgh the Sword, has been or is in Avignon.

Let us go seek for one of the other of them, since for my part I desire to meet them both." So all that day they sought but found neither.
Next morning Basil reappeared, according to his promise, and informed them that their business was on foot.

Also he said that it was likely to prove more difficult than he anticipated.