Daoud had been certain that money would not be enough to enlist
Ugolini's cooperation. Baibars already had been generous with him.
_Bribes alone will not move this man._
As he searched his brain for another approach, his eyes explored the
room. The skull, the powders, the brass instruments. Ugolini was a
student of many strange things, things verging on magic. Were these not
odd interests for a Christian prelate? He knew Greek, which was rare for
a Latin Christian. He had spoken of heresy before. Was he not, in his
willingness to correspond with Baibars, a heretic of a kind? And perhaps
in these studies of his as well.
_I must remind him that he sympathizes with us._
"My master sent me to you because he knows you are a friend to Islam."