The half-drunk captains fingered them curiously, but the eyes from the throne scarcely regarded them.
"These are your priests," said the Khakan "Let them talk with my priests and then go their own way.

I have little concern with priestcraft." Then Aimery spoke, and the Greek with many haltings translated.

He reminded Houlagou of the Tartar envoys who had sought from his King instruction in the Christian faith and had proclaimed his baptism.
"Of that I know nothing," was the answer.

"Maybe 'twas some whim of my brother Kublai.

I have all the gods I need." With a heavy heart Aimery touched on the proposed alliance, the advance on Bagdad, and the pinning of the Saracens between two fires.