pets in t  impossible to credit t a man, o tage, could be such an imbecile.

    o ains, staring blindly out too brigly began to consider o look to to t of t mattered: to Alberico. idings be read, if Brandin of Ygratrading souts  t beyond tregea and tains to Quileian ports and all t land, so long kept to tesses?

    If to t. Denied access because Alberico of

    Barbadior oo infirm in o t . . . Alberico felt o s; a cold trickle of moisture slid doil it passed.

    From t suddenly seemed as if a dagger erialized, more s have fashioned.

    Senzio.  tless nigo break out, to regain control of a situation t increasingly seemed to be operating upon ead of , as master of iny.

    And t er, even before tains.

    tly after, even as t floibar, t t someone ried to kill Brandin of Ygrath.

    ried, and failed. For one blissful nig glorious scenarios of triump t  ly  , a sire Peninsula of ter ely, erms of trade Alberico to offer him.

    And ter all of t, at t.

    it o  for to finally die.  sh of Quileia.

    It o tate and found all tains ing, grim-faced. A ne again, a single day after t,  smasy years of balancing into tiny, ss t hey had been.

    Brandin ed in Ygratern Palm.

    On Ced, trembling at ing .

    quot;And t; Karalius of t asked s to speak.

    quot;Most ;If tay t become citizens, only equal citizens, of the new kingdom.”

    quot;You say t; AJberico said,  and ions. quot;Do you knoold t to be so?”

    turned grey, stammeri