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"We were led," answered Godwin. "Your father had wisdom at his death, and saw what we could not see." "Ay," added Wulf, "but I would that it had been into some other place, for I fear this lord Al-je-bal at whose nod men hurl themselves to death." "He is hateful," answered Rosamund, with a shudder; "worse even than the knight Lozelle; and when he fixes his eyes on me, my heart grows sick.
"Ay," echoed Rosamund, "it is Lozelle, the double traitor, who betrayed me first to the soldiers of Saladin, and, because I would have none of his love, next to this lord Sinan." Wulf heard, and, as Lozelle drew near to them, sprang forward with an oath and struck him across the face with his mailed hand.
He owned ships of whose doings upon the seas and in the East evil tales were told, and once had sought Rosamund's hand in marriage, but being rejected, uttered threats for which Godwin, as the elder of the twins, had fought and wounded him. Then he vanished none knew where. "Is Sir Hugh Lozelle here then?" asked Godwin, "masked like you common cowards?
What we can bear these Cyprian gallants can bear also. Bid the sailors lift the anchor and hoist the sail, or I loose my scimitars among them." Now Lozelle stamped and foamed, but without avail, so he turned to the three lords, who were pale with fear, and said: "Which will you do: find food and water for this ship, or put to sea without them, which is but to die?"
There they had been avenged upon the false knight Sir Hugh Lozelle, who had betrayed her, first to Saladin, then to Sinan, and sent him down to death and judgment; and thence they had rescued Rosamund. Oh, how wise they had been to obey the dying words of their uncle, Sir Andrew, who doubtless was given foresight at the end!
But that morning I had been thinking of Sir Hugh Lozelle if such a false, pirate rogue can be called a knight, not but that he is stout and brave enough and his threats after he recovered from the wound you gave him, Godwin; how that he would come back and take your cousin for all we could do to stay him.
Now Rosamund missed the hated face of the spy, Nicholas, and told Hassan, who made inquiry, to find or so said Lozelle that he went ashore and vanished there on the first day of their landing in Cyprus, though whether he had been killed in some brawl, or fallen sick, or hidden himself away, he did not know.
With a swift movement of his arm he struck a golden dish from the table to the marble floor, then said, in a clear voice in French: "Brother, be not so awkward; pick up that dish and answer the lord Sinan as is your right I mean, touching the matter of Lozelle." Wulf stooped to obey, and his mind cleared which had been so near to madness.
One morning Lozelle came off from Limazol, where he slept at night, bringing with him three Cyprian lords, who visited the ship not to bargain as they pretended, but to obtain sight of the beauteous princess Rosamund. Thereon the common talk began of homage that must be paid before food was granted, failing which the Emperor would bid his seamen capture the ship.
This was also preceded by an officer of the Assassins, as these servants of Al-je-bal were called by the Franks, and behind him, mounted on a splendid coalblack steed and followed by guards, rode a mail-clad Frankish knight. "It is Lozelle," said Wulf, "upon the horse that Sinan promised him." At the sight of the man a fury took hold of Godwin. With a shout of warning he drew his sword.
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