THE SAINT-KING IN CAPTIVITY. 193

and images, which the Crusaders had with them as
symbols of their religious faith, were trampled
scornfully under foot; and, with trumpets sounding
and kettle-drums clashing, the royal captives were
marched into Mansourah.

It was to the house of Fakreddin Ben Lokman,
the secretary of the sultan, that Louis was escorted ;
and, on arriving there, he was given into the custody
of the Kunuch Sahil. But, abandoned by fortune, and
in the power of his enemies, Louis was still himself.
In chains and captivity he exhibited the dignity of a
king and the resignation of a Christian, and his jailers
could not refrain from expressing their astonishment
at the serene patience with which he bore adversity.
Of all his property, he had only saved his book of
psalms; and daily, while consoling himself with re-
citing from its pages, he was inspired with strength
and resolution to bear his misfortunes, and to raise
his thoughts far above the malice of his foes.

Meanwhile, at the court of the sultan, everything
was not going smoothly. From the beginning, the
emirs and Mamelukes had looked with envy and
suspicion on the favourites brought by Touran Chah
from Mesopotamia; and such feelings had not died
away. Many of the favourites ere long were substi-
tuted for the ministers of the late sultan; and the
emirs and Mamelukes not only complained loudly of
this to Touran Chah, but reproached him bitterly for
the way in which he disposed of the spoil of the
Crusaders. |

‘ How is this?’ asked they ; ‘ you are bestowing the
spoils of the vanquished Franks, not on the men who