Toward evening on the second day, what does he do but blandly fetch out a dirk from inside his robe! "Great guns, my liege, where did you get that?" "From a smuggler at the inn, yester eve." "What in the world possessed you to buy it?" "We have escaped divers dangers by wit - thy wit - but I have bethought me that it were but prudence if I bore a weapon, too.

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