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Delvor returned not long afterward, dropped his striped cloak in one corner and held out his hands to one of the glowing braziers "As near as I was able to find out, things are quiet between here and Vo Mios just rode into the Fair with two dozen Thulls behind them"

Hettar looked up quickly, his hawk face alert

Wolf frowned "Did they come from the north or the south?"

"They claim to have come from Vo Mimbre, but there's red clay on the Thulls' boots I don't think there's any clay between here and Vo Mimbre, is there?"

"None," Mandorallen declared firion is to the north"

Wolf nodded "Get Silk back inside," he told Barak Barak went to the tent flap

"Couldn't it just be a coincidence?" Durnik wondered

"I don't think ant to take that chance," Wolf answered "We'll wait until the Fair settles down for the night and then slip away"

Silk caether briefly

"It won't take the Murgos long to find out we've been here," Barak ruhtfully at his red beard "Then we'll have the our heels every step of the way fros if Hettar, Mandorallen, and I go pick a fight with the to follow anybody"

Hettar nodded with a certain dreadful eagerness

"I don't know if that would set too ith the Tolnedran legionnaires who police the Fair," Silk drawled "Policemen seem to worry about unexplained bodies It upsets their sense of neatness"

Barak shrugged "It was a thought"

"I think I've got an idea," Delvor said, pulling on his cloak again "They set up their tents near the pavilions of the Nadraks I'll go do some business with them" He started toward the tent flap, then paused "I don't know if it ," he told theo named Asharak"

Garion felt a sudden chill at the mention of the naoing to have to attend to that one sooner or later, Belgarath," he declared

"You know him?" Delvor did not seem very surprised

"We've met a ti to et started," Delvor said

Garion lifted the tent flap to allow Delvor to leave; but as he glanced outside, he let out a startled gasp and jerked the flap shut again

"What's the matter?" Silk asked him

"I think I just saw Brill out there in the street"

"Let htly, and he and Garion both peered out A slovenly figure loitered in the ed much since they'd left Faldor's farm His tunic and hose were still patched and stained; his face was still unshaven, and his cast eye still gleamed with a kind of unwholesoht," Durnik confirh for ly