30/32 I have reason to know he has not left them the whole of this past week. He has been disobedient to his vow of submission. He has not come at my bidding." "I know naught of it," replied the knight calmly. "You know well that the penalty of hiding and harbouring a heretic is little short of that of heresy itself. Have a care you do not lose all just for the caprice of the moment, which in time to come you will have leisure bitterly to repent." The prior, too, was eying him sternly. |