at a coastal village, where they find the moondarker's camp, do some scouting and devise a plan of action. When a ship is spotted on the horizon, Halt alerts the village guards and Will changes the color of the beacon fire that the moondarkers set up to lure in ships. The moondarkers are arrested, but Will's speech is accidentally tossed in the beacon fire, much to his dismay. Halt draws out of Will the true message he wanted to tell his friends and both Will and Halt are happier with the result. Dinner for Five Jenny, the owner of the restaurant to which Will had sent Hilde in "The Roamers", is preparing her home for a romantic dinner for two with the handsome Ranger Gilan. At the same time, three robbers break into Ambrose (the goldsmith)'s safe box, which held the jewels and ingots of the goldsmith’s trade. The three robbers enter Jenny's house, thinking she would be at her restaurant, but recover quickly and restrain her. Gilan arrives at the Keep of Baron Arald, the Baron of Redmont Fief, where a watchman tells Gilan and the Baron about the robbery. The thieves in Jenny's home learn that Gilan would be stopping by and realize they must eliminate both the Ranger and Jenny in order to pull off the heist. With her womanly protectiveness kicking in, Jenny manages to disable two of the robbers but the third makes it out the door. However, he runs straight into Gilan, who apprehends the thieves and then soothes Jenny, who was crying because their dinner had been ruined. The Bridal Dance As preparations for Horace and Evanlyn's wedding commence, a series of mishaps befall Castle Redmont. Will investigates the accidents and comes up with Robard, the assistant steward who was recently demoted. In a meeting with Will, Robard admits to the crimes, but doesn’t give up everything. The next day, Robard is discovered dead - what seemed like suicide by poison - with a piece of a paper with two names on it the only suspicious thing in the room. Following the names around town, Will discovers they were aliases and the men to whom those names belonged were probably Genovesan assassins. Talking it over with Halt, the two Rangers conclude that there is a distinct danger because King Duncan and royal dignitaries from other countries would be coming to Redmont very soon