_ 60 _ out well, because I hope that much good will come to me from it. The Captain-in-Chief said to him “I swear to you by the King my master that if I find truth in you, you will find in me all the good you deserve”. And he told him to go to the top of the castle and into the pilot’s cabin while he stayed to talk with the Captains who had been summoned for the purpose. To them he said “Sirs, you see the message. Now I need your opinion as to how I should answer, because I want to be sure that if I do what you tell me I do not have to answer alone for your faults, if you have any. I do not ask you for a reply for want of realizing how many possible answers there are to give, but I am not sure which of them is the best. The responsibility is mine alone because I have the authority to decide; you have only to work with your arms, I have to work with soul and spirit. Because of the work which falls to you I need you to be sharers and witnesses to the King our master, because if I go wrong he will punish me.” As the Captains realized what the Captain-in-Chief wanted to do, they answered “Sir, since you say that everything is your responsibility, and we are disappointed in the esteem in which you hold us, do as you please.” The Captain-in-Chief answered “Sirs, you know that if
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