"No need to tell him that the stores are treasure for the most part." "Tell him it is treasure, and it will be all the safer," Dalfin said.

"These are holy monks, of a sort who care for poverty more than wealth.

This man was well born, as you may guess from his speech." I told the hermit what Bertric needed, and he laughed, saying that the whole brotherhood would come and help at once.

And then he bade us follow him.

We went across the moorland for about half a mile, to the foot of the hill or nearly, and then came on a little valley amid the rising ground, where trees grew, low and wind twisted, but green and pleasant; and there I saw a cluster of little stone huts for all the world like straw beehives, built of stones most cunningly, mortarless, but fitting into one another perfectly.
The huts were set in a rough circle, and each had its door toward the sun, and a little square window alongside that, and a smoke-blackened hole in the top of the roof.