Now, hostess, let us be plain with one another.

You know a great deal about us, but although it has suited us to call ourselves the pilgrims Peter and John, in all this there is nothing of which we need be ashamed, especially as you say that our secret is no secret, which I can well believe.

Now, this secret being out, I propose that we remove ourselves from your roof, and go to stay with our own people at the castle, where, I doubt not, we shall be welcome, telling them that we would bide no longer with one who is called a spy, whom we have discovered also to be a 'daughter of Al-je-bal.' After which, perhaps, you will bide no longer in Beirut, where, as we gather, spies and the 'daughters of Al-je-bal' are not welcome." She listened with an impassive face, and answered: "Doubtless you have heard that one of us who was so named was burned here recently as a witch ?" "Yes," broke in Wulf, who now learned this fact for the first time, "we heard that." "And think to bring a like fate upon me.

Why, foolish men, I can lay you both dead before ever those words pass your lips." "You think you can," said Godwin, "but for my part I am sure that this is not fated, and am sure also that you do not wish to harm us any more than we wish to harm you.

To be plain, then, it is necessary for us to visit Al-je-bal.