“Now I suppose you really think we are going to hang within a day or two.”

“I thought it not many minutes ago, for so the thing was decided and proclaimed.”

“Ah, then you’ve changed your mind, is that it?”

“Even that.

I only thought, then; I know, now.”

I felt sarcastical, so I said:

“Oh, sapient servant of the law, condescend to tell us, then, what you know .”

“That ye will all be hanged to-day, at mid-afternoon! Oho! that shot hit home! Lean upon me.”

The fact is I did need to lean upon somebody. My knights couldn’t