How to dispose of this sum so that it might be safe and yet at my command was a question which greatly exercised me.

In the end I had recourse to my friend the cutler, who suggested hiding a hundred crowns of it in my cap, and deftly contrived a place for the purpose.

This, the cap being lined with steel, was a matter of no great difficulty.

A second hundred I sewed up in the stuffing of my saddle, placing the remainder in my pouch for present necessities.
A small rain was falling in the streets when, a little after noon, I started with my two knaves behind me and made for the north gate.

So many were moving this way and the other that we passed unnoticed, and might have done so had we numbered six swords instead of three.