Show indiscretion COST HIM LIFE ambassador talked too much and the result was unpleasant fo for r himself and others in ill a history of the turks chat chal coney las a greek relates how a fleet of crusaders sailing toward constanti in the beginning of 0 the thirteenth century was becalmed at the entrance ot of the at th thit tt time there was at the court of athens an ambassador of 0 the king of france who set out in fit a galley to visit the chiefs of the fleet the admiral confided to him that lie had been ordered to take constantinople stantin ople by surprise the ambassador spoke of the difficulties difficult ties and dangers of this passage as it was between two banks bank s from which could hurl upon the vessels enormous stones boiling oil and above all greek fire the admiral revealed to him thattie that the governors of the forts would make little resistance as they had been bribed the envoy was so pleased that as soon as he had returned to land he had great trouble to hold his tongue he was heard to prophesy in mysterious words that the famous passage would soon be forced As there were spies on all the words of the ambassador bas were soon ca carried I 1 aried to constantinople stantin ople when the fleet presented itself in the I telle the theca catapults of the turks manifested great activity the bribed captains of the forts had been removed and others were in their places the indiscreet ambassador was recalled to paris and executed |