But remembering what Cledra had told him, he had the feeling that a number of them seemed restless and timid.
It was hard to believe that Sir Walter could be so foolish as to ill-treat his own horses and yet, if a man would deliberately starve a horse, he would also, the Earl reflected, treat them unnecessarily harshly.
He walked from stall to stall and knew as he did so that the bidding had started again and now the horses he had already inspected were being taken out into the ring.
The stable was a long one, built in much the same manner as his own with wooden partitions between each stall and iron bars above them.
He did not attempt to open the doors of any of the stalls, but looked through the bars at the horses seeing all he wished to see, knowing that he had decided to add none o
