10/30 I told neither you nor any one all the blackness of his treachery. Have you guessed what this Acour is here to do ?" "Spy out the King's power in these parts, I suppose." "More than that"-- and he dropped his voice to a whisper--"spy out a safe landing-place for fifty thousand Normans upon our Suffolk coast. They are to sail hither this coming summer and set the crown of England upon their Duke John, who will hold it as vassal to his sire, Philip of France." "God's name! Is that true ?" "Ay, though in such a devil's business that Name is best left out. Look you, lad, I had warning from overseas, where, although I am now nothing but a poor old priest of a broken Order, I still have friends in high places. |