Chapter 151

Quincy Cox.

Lord of House Cox and knight of Saltpans.

He was a fat old man with a great belly, a round face and heavy jowls. Had his hair and beard been shaved and a monk’s robes put upon him, he might have played the part of the Laughing Buddha himself—the pot-bellied monk of the old tales who appears in a thousand forms, always unrecognized by ordinary men.