Two hours later, Mme. de Sacqueville-Danglars received a charming letter from the Count of Monte Fato, declaring that, as he did not wish to begin his stay in Annuminas by driving a lady to despair - especially one who, though born in the body of a maid, had an esprit at least the match of his - he begged her to accept the restitution of the oliphants. They had the same harness as before; only, in the centre of the rosettes that they wore on their ears, the Count had placed a small silmaril.
That evening, the Count of Monte Fato travelled to his residence in Barroue-Don, accompanied by Gali. The next afternoon, the Count summoned Gali to his cabinet and questioned him in Haradric.
"Gali, you have often spoken, or rather signed, of your skill with rope, is it not so?"
Gali nodded and stood up proudly.
"But will you stop two moumaques in their tracks, blundering in blind wrath like grey moving towers of evil?"
Gali smiled.
