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Nigel clasped his captive's hand to show his admiration and esteem, but Knolles shook his head. "Things are not ordered thus, save in the tales of the minstrels," said he. "I have no wish that your people at Evran should know our numbers or our plans. I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies. Has no one aught else to say?"
"I had but just come from France," said he, "and I had hoped to win honor in this country, for I have ever heard that the English are very hardy men and excellent people to fight with. My mules and my baggage are at Evran; but I rode forth to see what I could see, and I chanced upon your army moving down the road, so I coasted it in the hopes of some profit or adventure.
Have I not heard that the French are at Evran beyond the river, and is it not sooth that yonder castle, the towers of which I see above the woods, is in the hands of a traitor, who is false to his liege lord of Montford? There is little profit to be gained upon this road, for the folk seem to have no heart for war.
But this man is the enemy of all, and we of France owe him a debt even as you do, since many a good Frenchman has died in his cellars. For this reason I crave to be heard." "We will hear you," said Knolles. "I have come from Evran yesterday," said he.
If you so order it I will ride to Evran and bring my companions back with me." "Indeed, Robert," said Percy, "it is in my mind that this Frenchman speaks very wisely and well." "And when we have taken the castle what then?" asked Knolles. "Then you could go upon your way, fair sir, and we upon ours.
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