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He will give no ex parte judgment upon an issue which, from letters that have reached him appears to be complicated and doubtful." "Mother of Heaven!" exclaimed Acour, "what a fool am I to let you in to tell me such tidings. Well, if that is all you have to say the sooner I am out of this hateful city the better. I ride this afternoon, or, if need be, walk on foot." "Indeed," said Basil.
He learned of the King's wrath at the escape of this same Acour, and of his Grace's seizure of that false knight's lands in Suffolk, which, however, proved to be so heavily mortgaged that no one would grow rich upon them.
I have served as best I could and Calais has fallen. Now I ask your leave to go seek my enemy and yours Sir Edmund Acour, Count de Noyon." "Then you must go far, Sir Hugh, for I have tidings that this rogue who was not ashamed to wear another man's armour, and so save himself from your sword, is away to Italy this six months gone, where, as the Seigneur de Cattrina, he has estates near Venice.
Hugh answered that it was for the public ear of all Venice, and especially for that of the lord who was called Sir Edmund Acour in England, the Count de Noyon in France, and the Seigneur of Cattrina in Italy. "Will you pleased to point out this lord to us," said the Doge, glancing at the gorgeous throng which was gathered behind them.
For know, had he been what you say, the arrow that lies in your horse's heart would have nailed the breastplate to your own. Now take a message from me to your lord, Sir Edmund Acour, the traitor.
The flurry in the snow was at an end. John lay on his back, de Cressi knelt on him and lifted his short sword. "Do you yield?" men heard him say. "Nay," answered Clavering. Then suddenly Hugh rose and suffered his adversary to do likewise. "I'll not stick you like a hog!" he said, and some cried, "Well done!" for the act seemed noble. Only Acour muttered, "Fool!"
Basil passed in, shutting it quickly behind him. Before him at the further side of the table and near to a blazing fire stood Acour himself. He was clothed in a long robe and held a piece of linen that was soaked in some strong-smelling substance before his nose and mouth.
Knights, the hour is at hand for you to finish that which you began at Crecy and at Venice." Hugh heard and drew his sword. Acour drew his sword also, then cried out, pointing to Grey Dick: "Here be two against one. If I conquer he will shoot me with his bow." "Have no fear, Sir Thief and Liar," hissed Grey Dick, "for that shaft will not be needed.
The food she ate with thankfulness, but the wine she would not drink, because she knew that it was French and had heard Acour praise it.
Dick obeyed, and in his low, rasping voice, with more detail than Hugh had given, set out the story of those two combats at Crecy, of the sparing of the wolf knight and the slaying of the swan knight. "What say you now, noble Cattrina?" asked the Doge. "I say that the man lies even better than his master," answered Acour coolly, and all the Court laughed.
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