p. 98

"Never mind that,"
bird."
The fat man cocked
with fond eyes."All
a sip from the glass
most astounding thing
that knowing that
must have known

the order of the
called the Knights of

only what I remember
something?"
that Suleiman the
in 1523?"

Crete.

: they were to pay
one" - he held up a
Malta was still under Spain
them, but not unless they
sell it to anybody else."