Masters of the Guild

It was not long after sunset when old Grimaud, Count Thibaut’s gooseherd, was aroused from a light sleep by a fluttering at his window. He found huddled on the sill a small dun pigeon under whose wing nestled a roll of writing. According to instructions, he took it at once to Sir Gualtier Giffard, who found therein Ranulph’s statement of the tragedy impending at Montfaucon.