"Perhaps I also have sworn oaths and serve as you serve.

Who my master is or why I do so is naught to you.

But I like you well, and we have ridden together-- a wild ride.

Therefore I warn you, though perhaps I should not say so much, that the lord Al-je-bal is one who takes payment for what he gives, and that this business may cost you your lives." "You warned us against Saladin also," said Godwin, "so what is left to us if we may dare a visit to neither ?" She shrugged her shoulders.

"To take service under one of the great Frankish lords and wait a chance that will never come.