Dismayed, he turned to look into the room and found the chests for the most part open and rifled.
On the brazier, now cold, lay a wax tablet.

He snatched it up and read: Received of Julian of Ephesus the appended salvage in good repair.
Items: One wife, Two hundred talents.
JOHN, KING OF JERUSALEM.
He went back to the andronitis of Amaryllis.
"I have lost interest in the treasure," he said whimsically.

"But I'll go out and look for the girl.

I--I should like to discover of a truth if the passage leads out of Jerusalem." Amaryllis closed her lips firmly.

Philadelphus read in the look that he could not escape without Laodice.
Without further speech, he went to the vestibule, took his cloak and kerchief from the porter and went out into the city.
It was nearly midnight when he passed into the streets.