at him in wonder, startled out of confusion of face.

'Do you know more of him than I do, sire?' she asked, with a quick
heart.

'I believe that I do,' replied the Old Man; 'and take my word for it,
dear child, that I wish him no ill. I wish him,' he continued very
deliberately, 'less ill than he has sought to do himself. I wish him
most heartily well. And you, my girl, whom I have grown wisely and
tenderly to love; you, my Golden Rose, Moon of the Caliph, my stem, my
vine, my holy vase, my garden of endless delight--for you I wish, above
all things, rest after labour, refreshment and peace. Well, I believe
that I shall gain them for you. Go, therefore, since I bid you, and take
with you your son Fulke, that his father may see and bless him, and (if
he think fit) provide for him after the custom of his own country. And
when you have learned, as learn you will, from his mouth what I am sure
he will tell you, come back to me, my Pleasant Joy, and rest upon my
heart.'

Jehane sighed, and wrought with her fingers in her lap. 'If it must be,
sire--'

'Why, of course it must be,' said the Old Man briskly.

He sent her away to the harem with a kiss on her mouth, and had in
Cogia, and Bohadin son of Falmy of Balsora. To these two rapt Assassins
he gave careful instructions, which there was no mistaking. The Golden
Rose, properly attended, would accompany them as far as Marseilles. She
would journey on to Pampluna and abide in the court of the King of
Navarre (who loved Arabians, as his father before him) until such time
as word was brought her by one of them, the survivor, that they had
found King Richard, and that he would see her. Then she would set out,
attended by the Vizier, the chief of the eunuchs, and the Mother of
Flowers, and act as she saw proper.

Very soon after this the galley left the marble quay of Tortosa upon a
prosperous voyage through blue water. Jehane, her son Fulke of Anjou,
and the other persons named, were in a great green pavilion on the
poop. But she saw nothing, and knew nothing, of Cogia ibn Hassan ibn
Alnouk or of Bohadin son of Falmy of Balsora.

CHAPTER XVI

THE CHAPTER CALLED CHALUZ

When King Richard said, without any confirmatory oath, that he should
hang Adhemar of Limoges and the Count of Saint-Pol, all who heard him
believed it. The Abbot Milo believed it for one. Figuratively, you can
see his hands up as you read him. 'To hang two knights of such eminent
degree and part