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Katinka leaned forward and, with her fingertips, wiped a small clearwindow in the clouded surface of the mirror. You'd never cheat a brother Knight, would you? Sir Francis returned long before the midnight watch from dining withLord Cumbrae aboard S the Gull of Moray. He lay and listened to the burble of a mountain stream, and then heheard a woman's laughter, merrier and more lovely than the tinkle ofwater. Standing back among the first line of forest trees, Katinka and hermaid watched with interest.

Well, my lads! Hal called to his men. Then he went back to the fire and called out towards the lean-to ofbranches and thatch, The dawn comes. I am saving your life, you blethering idiot, Cumbrae shouted in hisear, and held his head down below t Aboli waspuzzled.