He dressed as a Moor and took Carillo, who had
brought the letter to the emperor, as his companion. They left
the city at twelve o'clock midnight, and took the same roads by
which Carillo had come secretly, and no one in the Moorish camp
saw them. At dawn they reached the bridge where Tirant had his
camp. When the guards recognized them they let them pass, and
they went directly to Tirant's tent and found him already up.
Tirant was very happy to see them, and he asked Sinegerus for
news about the emperor and the empress, and his heart, the
princess. He told him about everything he had seen, and what the
emperor told him. He also told him what the princess had said.
When the sultan and the Turk discovered that Tirant had
disembarked and that he had set up camp on the stone bridge, they
were sure they were lost, for they saw that they could not escape
by sea or by land without falling into Tirant's hands. At the
same time, if they stayed there long they would die of hunger,
because they did not even have enough food to last two months
since their ships had not been able to unload their cargo.
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