Ay, and there is another risk.

My page knows the counsels of this Charegite," he continued; "and, moreover, he is a peevish, self-willed fool, whom I would I were rid of, as he thwarts me by presuming to see with his own eyes, not mine.

But our holy order gives me power to put a remedy to such inconvenience.

Or stay--the Saracen may find a good dagger in his cell, and I warrant you he uses it as he breaks forth, which will be of a surety so soon as the page enters with his food." "It will give the affair a colour," said Conrade; "and yet--" "YET and BUT," said the Templar, "are words for fools; wise men neither hesitate nor retract--they resolve and they execute.".