Maurice Hewlett

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To that Glum, blinking hard, replied that there were things which any man might ask of another without reproach. "But," said Ogmund, "I would venture what I have of my own, so that what I win may be my own without cavil." "That's very fair," said Glum; "and what is it you expect to get out of the voyage?" Ogmund laughed a little, and spoke lightly. "Why," he said, "I expect to get rather more than I give for everything. That is the trader's way, the chapman's way. If he has a piece of goods that breeds no profit, overboard with it. It has not earned its stowage." Now Glum had his lips shut like a trap, and blinked fearfully. "Ah," he said, "and fame, and great report, and the lifted hands of men-what of those?"

To that Glum, blinking hard, replied that there were things which any man might ask of another without reproach. "But," said Ogmund, "I would venture what I have of my own, so that what I win may be my own without cavil." "That's very fair," said Glum; "and what is it you expect to get out of the voyage?" Ogmund laughed a little, and spoke lightly. "Why," he said, "I expect to get rather more than I give for everything. That is the trader's way, the chapman's way. If he has a piece of goods that breeds no profit, overboard with it. It has not earned its stowage."

The story it's about a historical romance of the third Crusade. Richard Coeur de Lion called Richard Yea-and-Nay by Bertran de Born, the troubadour, because of the strange self-contradictions that mark this masterful ruler. Jehane Saint-Pol is the beautiful girl he loves and wrongs. He renounced her saying Nay to his heart, but stole her back from before the altar of her marriage with another, saying Nay to his head. He crowned her Countess of Anjou, but repudiated the marriage when he becomes king, to make Bereng re his queen in order to have her dowry to make his crusade to the Holy Land. He refused to be husband to the queen and was faithful to Jehane to the end. Jehane sacrifices all for the man she loves. She becomes a wife in the harem of the Old Man of Musse as the price of Richard's life. Richard dies in Jehane's arms, the romantic hero of chivalry.