Certainly if he had had any missive to carry it would not have escaped the scrutiny of his captors, and their oaths and kicks bespoke their baffled disappointment.
"Then he has messages intrusted to him," said Montacute, first in French, and then in English.

"Set the fellow upon his feet, and bind fast his hands to yon rafter.

If he will not speak the truth, it shall he flogged out of him!" The swarthy man was growing very angry at his failure.

He may have begun to suspect that he had been duped by a wit keener than his own, and the thought raised within him the demon of cruelty and lust of blood.

He hated Lord Claud with a deadly hatred, having been worsted by him in encounters of many kinds.