that brought me here?"

"My master and thine? That is the good knight
and great lord Sir Kay the Seneschal, foster brother to
our liege the king."

"Very good; go on, tell me everything."

He made a long story of it; but the part that had
immediate interest for me was this: He said I was Sir
Kay's prisoner, and that in the due course of custom
I would be flung into a dungeon and left there on scant
commons until my friends ransomed me -- unless I
chanced to rot, first. I saw that the last chance had
the best show, but I didn't waste any bother about