ABSTRACT
And the King, when he heard this message which came to him from Bugron, lord of Constantine, lifted his hands to Heaven and said: “ Lord, the true God, I give Thee praise and thanks for so much grace and mercy Thou showest me. May it please Thee, if this should be to Thy glory and the good of my dominions, that it may come to a good issue.” And the messengers were two Saracen knights, very wise men who pretended they came about the release of some captives. And so they delivered this message so secretly, that no man on earth knew anything about it, except the Lord King. And the said Lord chose two merchants who were very wise and who were notables, and he made them load a ship with merchandise and they went to the port of Collo with the said ship. And the two Saracens went with them, with ten Saracen captives they had bought in order to pretend that they were from those districts. And the Lord King arranged with these two merchants that, when they were at Collo, they, with part of the said merchandise, should go up to Constantine and have an interview with En Bugron, to find out whether what those messengers said was true. And thus the Lord King would find out all, for the said merchants were notables and his born subjects. And he commanded that they should not reveal this to anyone, under penalty of losing their liberty and all their property. And, as he commanded, so it was done.
