Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat[…]

Whatever brother, contrary to the prohibition of the venerable canons, receives a runagate clerk or monk, without pacific letters, and when convened obstinately persists in it, let him pay what is appointed, viz., thirty sicles; fifteen to the bishop, fifteen to the abbot whose monk he received without consent of his own prior. Let him dismiss the runagate, or be excommunicate, and run the risk of paying more.

the parenthetical portion of the sentence Bob (my best friend) works in finance

The foe is profligate, and run.