I heard you say that it was always a good thing to carry a certain amount about with one in case of being taken prisoner or laid up wounded." "It was a wise precaution, Paolo; but just at the present moment I would rather that you did not have it about you.

However, I do not suppose we shall be interfered with.

You may as well continue to wear your breeches under those you have outside, but leave your doublet when I change.
After all, if you were to be searched the pistoles would show that we are not what we seem, unless we could make up some plausible tale as to how we came possessed of them." "Oh, we could manage that easily enough, master! There are other ways of getting pistoles than by earning them." Thus chatting they had crossed the bridge and were now entering Eichstadt.

Going to a quiet cabaret they ate a hearty meal, and Hector afterwards bought the axes and knives, and they left the town just before the gates were closed.

They had walked some miles when a thunderstorm, which had for some time been threatening, broke over them.
"We must get some shelter if we can," Hector said.