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When we came out into the portico Satsuma girded on his own sword and, in the face of the _hatamoto_ officials, ordered our swords and dirks to be returned to us. We were in his charge and not yet under sentence. Next he called Yuki, the _ronin_, before him, and ascertained that the injuries suffered by the brave man from the torture, though fortunately not of a permanent character, disabled him from walking any distance. The Daimio demanded the use of a _kago_ from the _hatamotos_, and ordered that the injured man should be carried before us. With the _kago_, the _hatamotos_ fetched the sword and dirk which had been taken from Yuki upon his imprisonment.
Yoritomo and I now entered our _norimons_, across which the symbolic nets were again flung, and the procession marched slowly out on its way to the nearest Satsuma _yashiki_. I surmised that the court and the Council of Elders had thought to flatter the Daimio by entrusting him with the charge of the heir and the guest of the Prince of Owari. If so, they had proved their ignorance of his warm friendship for Yoritomo, and must have been both puzzled and chagrined at his courteous bearing towards the self-confessed breakers of the law.