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The Brethren

CHAPTER Five: The Wine Merchant
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"The knight Lozelle was named there.

Yet if Saladin had to do with it, it seems strange that the blow should have come before the word." Sir Andrew brooded a while, then said: "Bring in this palmer.

I will question him." So the man Nicholas, who was found still eating as though his hunger would never be satisfied, was brought in by Wulf.

He bowed low before the old knight and Rosamund, studying them the while with his sharp eyes, and the roof and the floor, and every other detail of the chamber.

For those eyes of his seemed to miss nothing.
"You have brought me a letter from far away, Sir Palmer, who are named Nicholas," said Sir Andrew.
"I have brought you a chest from Damascus, Sir Knight, but of its contents I know nothing.


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