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I can’t inform you that. ’ ‘You should have a few idea,’ stated Ralph. ‘I didn’t kill him, my lord. That’s all i will be able to say. I’d have performed it very another way. ’ ‘So you plotted homicide yet didn’t have the tummy to hold it out. ’ ‘No,’ stated the opposite with vehemence. ‘I wasn’t missing in braveness. I risked my lifestyles to get within that condominium at evening to borrow the lord Richard’s keys. That took loads of braveness. the explanation I didn’t kill him used to be that somebody obtained to Hermer sooner than I did. I can’t reproach myself adequate for that. ’ ‘For what? ’ ‘Delaying my circulation for therefore lengthy. I misplaced my prize. ’ ‘Is that what you name it? ’ stated Ralph, disapprovingly. ‘Yes, my lord. ’ bored with using adrift of the others, Vavasour stuck them up and taken his horse along Ralph’s mount. The anchorite nonetheless believed that the prisoner was once deceiving them ultimately. He listened rigorously to Starculf’s account of his events considering leaving Richard de Fontenel’s property. ‘I was once an outcast. The lord Richard didn’t in simple terms hound me off his land, he threatened to have me whipped if i used to be ever stuck within the county of Norfolk back. I went down into Suffolk to lie low for some time, operating as a falconer for a brand new grasp, yet I by no means forgot the outdated one. I knew Hermer feared that i'd go back and that stored him on his safeguard. I allow time cross in order that he and the lord Richard might imagine they’d noticeable the top of me. ’ He gave a mystery smile. ‘Then I went again for the keys. ’ ‘When either one of them have been absent from the house,’ acknowledged Gervase. ‘Yes. ’ ‘That used to be very handy for you, wasn’t it? ’ ‘I knew the place the lord Richard saved his keys,’ stated Starculf. ‘Nobody else was once allowed to exploit them so they’d no longer be ignored for a couple of days. I selected a locksmith in Wymondham simply because i assumed I’d by no means be hunted for there. ’ ‘But you have been. ’ ‘Unfortunately. ’ ‘Let’s return to the robbery of these keys,’ acknowledged Gervase, learning his profile. ‘I don’t imagine you will trip all of the means up from Suffolk within the desire that the home you desired to holiday into will be principally unoccupied. You knew, didn’t you? You had an partner who instructed you the precise second to strike. ’ ‘Someone did provide me a bit help,’ conceded Starculf. ‘Who was once it? ’ ‘That’s now not vital. ’ ‘Of direction it is,’ asserted Ralph. ‘The fellow is as in charge as you're. ’ ‘No, my lord. ’ ‘Tell me his identify! ’ ‘I’ll by no means do that,’ Starculf stated, proudly. ‘The one who gave me the data had no proposal what use I intended to place it to. whilst I broke into that house–and whilst I lower back the keys I borrowed from there–I had no companion. ’ ‘What in regards to the gold elephants? ’ requested Vavasour, bitterly. ‘Did you will have a accomplice for those who stole them? ’ ‘I’ve advised you prior to that I didn’t thieve them. ’ ‘I say that you’re mendacity. ’ ‘Not concerning the elephants,’ made up our minds Gervase. ‘I don’t imagine he even knew that they existed till you pointed out them. And he’s no longer mendacity in regards to the homicide both. He’s doing whatever extra sophisticated than that, aren’t you, Starculf? ’ ‘What’s that? ’ ‘Deliberately retaining again the total fact.