"You'll answer to my spear if you haem them or use them harshly."You'll answer to my spear if you haem them or use them harshly. Do you understand?" The captain nodded his head and wrenched his arm from Sir Jeffrey's grip. With that, the crusading knight went away in his carriage to continue his adventures. As soon as the carriage was out of sight, Tremayne stripped the princesses of what little clothing they had and tossed their trinkets and jewelry to the crewmen on the boat. Then he trussed up their nude bodies tightly with many lengths of rope and gagged them effectively with huge wads of knotted cloth. Finally, he dragged the poor maidens up to the bow of the boat and lashed them to the mast in a sitting position. "He told us not to harm them or use them," Tremayne said mockingly to his crew, "but he didn't say we couldn't look at them. |