It was directly opposite the Royal Cafe (with American bar attached), and the contents of its grimy little windows presented a peculiarly fascinating interest to him.

Time and again, he crossed over from the Cafe garden to look into these windows.

They were packed with weapons and firearms of such ancient design that he wondered what they could have been used for, even in the Middle Ages.

Once he ventured inside the little shop.

Finding no attendant, he put aside his suddenly formed impulse to purchase a mighty broadsword.