Now I have a mind to tie this man up for a day or two; we have a spare chamber for him." "Do so," I said.

"Then we will pass out through the church, and Quendritha will think that he waits us here yet, and we shall be the safer." So we bound him and set him, still senseless, in the empty chamber of Sighard, making fast the door with the broken dagger so that, even if presently the man worked his bonds loose, he could not get to Quendritha to say that he had failed.

Then I made Erling don a buff coat of Sighard's, good enough to turn most blows.

He might need it if this went on.
"It is in my mind," said I when this was done, "that a crowd is the safest place for us just now.

Let us go and see how matters fare at the stables.