Part 28 (1/2)
In the end, he even left his sword stuck contemptuously in the Crossman's shi+eld and destroyed the ave the man the mercy bloith his opponent's oord! The croild! No one had expected such prowess of Sir Conrad, although he had said all along that he was going to win Shortly after Sir Conrad's victory, he gave mercy to the Crossman's horse, for that ani ht that all was over when four ed onto the field and at Sir Conrad
Cries of ”Foul!” went up, for this was a foul beyond all i! But the marshals had already ordered the crossbowmen to uncock their weapons, for fear of accidental discharge They ordered the crossbowressors, but it takes soainly weapons Time that Sir Conrad did not have!
Far away on the roof of the windmill, Tadaos was more prepared He loosed four shafts at the evil-doers, watched the arrows go through the low clouds and then coolden shafts hit its roup and their riderless horses ran on both sides of Sir Conrad, while he stood there un to his knees ”We have seen a , ”Ait as Tadaos quickly descended fro arrows
As planned, Ilya was first on the field But when he grasped an arrow to pull it from the dead man's chest, it bent in his hand! The arroere truly old!
Ilya fell to his knees and prayed
Interlude Four I hit the STOP button again
”I don't believe that shooting, and I'nostic to believe that you have a truly docuerprints are all over this, Toives?”
”Well, of course I did it I couldn't trust Conrad's life to one ood he was You don't think I could let those German bastardsti on advanced weaponry, just in case we ever needed such a thing We've never had to use it, which is good, but rather frustrating for the engineers They were delighted when I gave theolden arroere the easy part Just souide theh-tech stuff afterward”
”Getting rid of Tadaos's arroas the hard part They had to do so to hide our shi+p, then detect and take out soets After that, well, would you believe thirty- caliber cruise ht that you were so sure that Conrad would be alive eight years later,” I said
”There are soaround this mess that I just couldn't take the chance Maybe he could be both killed and stay alive Is that any stranger than both saving and abandoning that child?”
”So you faked a miracle It's hard to believe that even from you!”
”Look, kid One y”
He hit the START button
Chapter Twenty-One
FROM THE DIARY OF CONRAD SCHWARTZ
I had gone into the fight knowing thatthat God was on my side I had been scared, but so sure death in the face
And then, just as suddenly it was over, and my mind couldn't handle it all at once