The very day that Cnut was brought in I visited the French camp, and accused him of having been the cause of your disappearance and Cnut's wounds.

He affected the greatest astonishment at the charge.

He had not, as he said, been out of the camp for two days.

My accusation was unfounded and malicious, and I should answer this as well as the previous outrage, when the vow of the Crusaders to keep peace among themselves was at an end.

Of course I had no means of proving what I said, or I would have gone direct to the king and charged him with the outrage.