Chapter Seventeen
Off the main bedroom was a small ante-chamber, which contained a narrow bed. Lady Crawdor told Gustav to crawl towards it. She opened the door and pushed him in. “Go to sleep,” she said, and locked the door.
From inside, Gustav could just hear the murmur of voices, but make out nothing of what was said. The Thane and his wife talked for a long time and Gustav dozed. Their conversation was about the progress of their bid for power, and their strategy for the forthcoming struggle. The first topic of conversation was Clovis.
Clovis was a handsome man, tall and well-built, with blue eyes and a wide mouth and blonde hair that hung down to his shoulders, like a girl some said, though not in his presence. He was a man of great wealth and had five hundred men under arms. Since
