"Have the Fung cut the wires ?" "Nay, O Orme, a worse thing; I have discovered that the Prince Joshua has laid a plot to steal away 'Her-whose-name-is-high.'" "What do you mean?
Set out all the story, Japhet," said Oliver.
"It is short, lord.

I have some friends, one of whom--he is of my own blood, but ask me not his name--is in the service of the Prince.

We drank a cup of wine together, which I needed, and I suppose it loosed his tongue.

At any rate, he told me, and I believed him.

This is the story.