Chapter ten

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Chapter ten Of the power of the LemmitesLooked at dispassionately, the perfectly logical deduction from what had happened was that Twayne Gullik, a conscientious castellan, concerned for the safety of his mistress and much distrusting us rough new arrivals, had taken her off to a place of greater sanctuary. This was perfectly possible. His attempt to get us out of the palace had failed. But — we knew that the kovneva had left the palace before Gullik spoke to us. Copper-bottoming his bet? Maybe. One way or the other, we had covered the options. If Tilda was safe with Gullik, no harm would have been done. If she was being abducted — and one could hardly say against her will because she was probably in a state of happy befuddlement — Pompino and the crew from Tuscurs Maiden and Framco and

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