The two knights were already in their coats of mail, and leaving the auberge they went to the grand master's palace.
A servitor had already been sent to D'Aubusson to inform him that they were coming, and he advanced to meet them as they entered.
"Welcome, Sir Gervaise!" he said.

"Whether your news be good or bad, whether you have found that it is a general rising of the slaves that is intended, or a plot by which a handful of slaves may seize a boat and escape, the gratitude of the Order is no less due to you for the hardships and humiliations you have undergone on its behalf." "It concerns but one prison: that of St.Pelagius." "The largest of them," the grand master put in.
"The whole of the slaves there are to be liberated at twelve o'clock tonight, are to seize the three water towers and to spike the guns, to burn all the shipping in the harbour, to make off with six galleys, and destroy the rest." "By St.John!" D'Aubusson exclaimed, "this is indeed a serious matter.
But tell me all about it.

There must be treachery indeed at work for such a scheme to be carried out." Gervaise now told him all the details he had learned.
"So two of the Order, though but of the inferior grade, are in the plot ?" the grand master said; "and several of the overseers?
One of the villains is, of course, the man you saw this Greek talking with.

We must get hold of the other if we can.

As to the slaves, now that we have warning, there is an end of the matter, though without such warning they would surely have succeeded, for the plans are well laid, and they would have been at sea before we could have gathered in any force at the port.
If it were not that it would cost the lives of many of the warders and of the prison guards, I should say we ought to take post outside the gate, for we should then catch the traitors who are to accompany them.
As it is, we must be beforehand with them.