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The Brethren

CHAPTER Eleven: The City of Al-Je-Bal
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Fools, that is the shirt of the grey-eyed knight.

Give it me; I will be his squire," and she snatched the hauberk from their hands, whereat, when her back was turned, they glanced at one another.
"Now," she said, when they were fully armed and had donned their mantles, "you brethren look as pilgrims should.

Listen, I have a message for you.

The Master"-- and she bowed her head, as did the women, guessing of whom she spoke--"will receive you in an hour's time, till when, if it please you, we can walk in the gardens, which are worth your seeing." So they went out with her, and as they passed towards the curtain she whispered: "For your lives' sake, remember all that I have told you--above everything, about the wine and the ring, for if you dream the drink-dream you will be searched.

Speak no word to me save of common matters." In the passage beyond the curtain white-robed guards were standing, armed with spears, who turned and followed them without a word.


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