Pity she should be wasted
thus, but many others are in a like case. If she awakes give her good
food, and if you cannot get that--wine, of which there is plenty. Five
gold pieces--thank you," and he hurried away.
"Little have you told me, physician, that I did not know already," said
the tall hooded figure, in a deep voice the sound of which thrilled Hugh
to his marrow. "Yet you are right; it is in the hands of God. And to
those hands I trust--not in vain, I think."
"Sir," said Hugh addressing him out of the shadow in which he stood,
"be pleased to tell me, if you will, whether you have met in this town a
knight of the name of Sir Edmund Acour, for of him I am in search?"
"Sir Edmund Acour?" answered the figure. "No, I have not met him in
Avignon, though it is like enough that he is here. Yet I have known of
this knight far away in England."
"Was it at Blythburgh, in Suffolk, perchance?" asked Hugh.
"Ay, at Blythburgh in Suffolk; but who are you that speak in English and
know of Blythburgh in Suffolk?"
"Oh!" cried Hugh, "what do you here, Sir Andrew Arnold?"
The old man threw back his hood and stared at him.
"Hugh de Cressi, by Christ's holy Name!" he exclaimed. "Yes, and Richard
the archer, also. The light is bad; I did not see your faces. Welcome,
Hugh, thrice welcome," and he threw his arms about him and embraced him.
"Come, enter my lodgings, I have much to say to you.
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