Bathalda will find, in the town, men on whom he can rely to take you.

In this way none here will know where you have gone.

I will have the litters in readiness at a short distance from the palace, and you can then issue out by the garden gate, unobserved.

I shall, of course, myself escort you." "What shall we take with us, Cuitcatl ?" "I will get, in addition to those who carry the litters, five or six porters.

These I will bring up through the gardens to the private door, and Roger and I will carry down to them such parcels of your clothes as you may make up.