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I asked them to take me to Domojiroff. Through the dark I saw four big yurtas and two Mongol sentinels with Russian rifles. We entered the Russian "Noyon's" tent. A very strange picture was presented to our eyes. In the middle of the yurta the brazier was burning. In the usual place for the altar stood a throne, on which the tall, thin, grey-haired Colonel Domojiroff was seated.
"By the Saints!" he said presently in a startled voice, "if this be Sir Edmund Acour he has strangely changed." "I am not Acour, lord of Noyon," said the dying man in a hollow voice. "Had you given me time I would have told you so." "Then, in Christ's name, who are you?" asked Hugh, "that wear de Noyon's cognizance?" "I am Pierre de la Roche, one of his knights. You have seen me in England.
Your father assisted thereat and gave you to the groom in the presence of a congregation. The drugging is a matter of surmise and evidence which may not be forthcoming, since you are the only witness, and where is the proof? I fear me, daughter, that according to the Church's law you are de Noyon's lawful wife " "The Church's law," she broke in; "how about God's law?
Yes, and I name him coward and scullion if he refuses this, King Edward's gage and mine," and drawing the gauntlet from his left hand, Hugh cast it clattering to the marble floor at de Noyon's feet. A babel of talk broke out in the great hall, and with it some vivas and clapping of hands, for Hugh had spoken boldly and well; moreover, the spectators read truth in his grey eyes.
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