Chapter 56 No.56

It was a lean, harsh-faced man that he saw, long-moustached and melancholy-eyed-"grim as a goose," as the physician had said-wearing, even in this guarded household, a half-breast and cap of steel. A long sword jingled beside him on the stone floor and clashed with his spurred boots. He appeared the last man in the world to be the companion of a so