I shall add that it happened as he was trying to make his escape, contrary to the parole he had given; but in truth he will be drowned in the dungeon in which I have placed him, which has rid me of many a troublesome prisoner before now.

The river is at ordinary times but two feet below the loophole; and when its tide is swelled by rain it often rises above the sill, and then there is an end of any one within.
They can doubt my word; but there are not many who would care to do so openly; none who would do so for the sake of an unknown English knight.
And as for any complaints on the part of the Black Prince, King Phillip has shown over and over again how little the complaints of Edward himself move him." "It were almost better to knock him on head at once," the other said thoughtfully; "the fellow has as many lives as a cat.
"If he had as many as nine cats," the knight replied, "it would not avail him.

But I will have no violence.

The water will do your work as well as a poinard, and I will not have it said, even among such ruffians as mine, that I slew a captured knight.

The other will pass as an accident, and I care not what my men may think as long as they can say nothing for a surety.