Gaspard spoke a word to Champernoun in Spanish.Then to the landlord: "We are strangers, so must bow to the custom of your city. Have you a man to send to the Hotel de Guise?"
"Why trouble the Duke, my lord?" was the answer. "See, I will make you badges."
He tore up a napkin, and bound two white strips crosswise on their left arms, and pinned a rag to their bonnets. "There, messieurs, you are now wearing honest colours for all to see. It is well, for presently blood will be hot and eyes blind."