But the writing said----" "Well, what did the writing say ?" "I am trying to think--my memory fails me at times; perhaps you will find the same thing when you have my years, should it please Heaven----" "Oh! that it might please Heaven to make you speak! What said the writing ?" "Ah! I have it now.

It said, in a note appended amidst other news, for--did I tell you this was a letter from his Grace's ambassador in Spain?
and, oh! his is the vilest scrawl to read.

Nay, hurry me not--it said that this 'Sir Huflit'-- the ambassador has put a query against his name--and his servant--yes, yes, I am sure it said his servant too--well, that they both of them, being angry at the treatment they had met with from the infidel Turks--no, I forgot to add there were three of them, one a priest, who did otherwise.

Well, as I said, being angry, they stopped there to serve with the Spaniards against the Turks till the end of that campaign.

There, that is all." "How little is your all!" exclaimed Cicely.