18/26 He went ashore to his own house, and his illness growing worse he died there. Well, he had qualities." "Aye," I answered, with a vision of the big, bluff, golden-haired man. What's the stir now? A body of cavaliers sumptuously clad, some even wearing shining corselet, greaves and helm, was forming about him who was himself in a magnificent dress. Besides these were fifty of the plainer sort, and there lacked not crossbow, lance and arquebus. |