These hundred-leaders shall then
go straightway and give the word to the captains of scores, and the
captains of scores to the captains of tens; and if, as is scarce
doubtful, the Folk-mote yea-says the onslaught and the fellowship
with you of the Wolf, then shall those leaders of tens bring their
men to the trysting-place, and so go their ways to Shadowy Vale. Now
here I have the roll of our Weapon-show, and I will look to it that
none shall be passed over; and if ye ask me in what order they had
best get on the way, my rede is that a two hundred should depart on
the very evening of the day of the Folk-mote, and these to be of our
folk of the Upper Dale; and on the morning of the morrow of the Folk-
mote another two hundreds from the Dale; and in the evening of the
same day the folk of the Shepherds, three hundreds or more, and that
will be easy to them; again on the next day two more bands of the
Lower Dale, one in the morning, one in the evening. Lastly, in the
earliest dawn of the third day from the Folk-mote shall the
Woodlanders wend their ways. But one hundred of men let us leave
behind for the warding of the Burg, even as we agreed before.
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