“I will send, instead, a letter to the grand master, so that he may know what they are doing here. God will punish them for it!”
Then he became thoughtful and after a while he began to say to the courtiers:
“I cannot understand why they killed their guest; I would suspect the shield-bearer if I did not know that he went there without weapons.”
“Bah!” said the ksiondz Wyszoniek, “why should the boy kill him? He had not seen him before. Then suppose he had had arms, how could he attack five of them and their armed retinues?”
“That is true,” said the prince. “That guest must have opposed them in something, or perhaps he did not wish to lie as was necessary for them. I saw them wink at him, to induce him to say that Jurand was the first to begin the fight.”
Then Mrokota of Mocarzew said:
