CHAPTER XXXIX“He has done well in this,” the Grand Master said, “and I will forget the past (as I am pledged) with a good will. I have in mind, as a fit reward, that he shall command the bastion of Castile.”
“It would be a high honour, indeed,” Sir Oliver replied, “and one for which he may soon be fit; but for the time (if you will not cancel what I have done), finding that he was loth to go back to the lazar where he should be, I have given him my own place, on a wall where no attack is yet likely to come.”
“And why, I must ask, would you waste him there?”
“Because he is one with a deep wound, which should have occasion to heal.”
“We have lines that would hardly be held if none but the hale were there.”
“So I know. But, by your leave, he is not to waste, being of more value to us eve
