I would I had had nothing to do with it." "But this Walter Somers," the other exclaimed, "what of him?
He has not escaped surely! The force which marched from Amiens was large enough to have eaten him and his garrison.
"He has not escaped," the knight replied.
"Then he is killed!" the other said eagerly.
"No; nor is he killed.

He is at present a prisoner in a dungeon below, together with a stout knave whom he begged might accompany him until ransomed." "All is well then," the other exclaimed.

"Never mind the loss of your men.

The money which I have promised you for this business will hire you two hundred such knaves; but why didst not knock him on head at once ?" "It was not so easy to knock him on the head," Sir Phillip growled.

"It cost us five hundred men to capture the outer walls, and to have fought our way into the keep, held, as it was, by men who would have contested every foot of the ground, was not a job for which any of us had much stomach, seeing what the first assaults had cost us; so the count took them all to quarter.