"We can avoid it if we lay down our arms," returned Béldi.
"Surely you do not think of that?" inquired Csáky in alarm.
"Why should I not? I will take no part in a civil war."
"Then we are lost."
"Rather we shall save thousands."
The same day he ordered his forces to disperse and return home.
The next day Gregory Bethlen sent Michael Vay to Bodola, who brought with him the Prince's pardon.
Csáky ground his teeth together. It occurred to him that he had got Denis Banfy beheaded, yet he too had received a pardon, and he inquired of Vay in some alarm: "Can we really rely on this letter of pardon?"
Michael Vay was candid enough to reply: "Well, my dear brethren, though you had a hundred pardons it would be as well if you courageously resolved to quit Transylvania notwithstanding."
Csáky gave not another moment's thought to the matter, but packed up his trunks, and while it was still daylight escaped through the Bozza Pass.