"Nor will the ugly clip on his shoulder leave his humor happier." The Chevalier's eyes danced at the recollection.
"'T was our preacher friend who sheared him.

I hold it a master-stroke; but for a spear-butt on the way it would have cleft the fellow into two equal parts.

Have you seen aught of Eloise since the fight ?" "She lies yonder against the wall at my left, and remains unhurt, I think.

I will make effort to turn over, and have speech with her." So securely had I been bound with coarse grass rope, I found it no small task to change the position of my body sufficiently to peer about the corner of intervening rock, and clearly perceive my lady.

She was reclining in a half sitting posture well within the darker shadow, bound as were the rest of us.
"You remain uninjured, I trust, Madame ?" I asked gently, and it heartened me to observe the smile with which she instantly glanced up at sound of my voice.
"No blow has touched me," was her immediate response, "yet I suffer noticing the stains of blood disfiguring both you and my husband.