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"I am not so sure of that," said the other, suspiciously. "You are a Doomsman, and you know me to be a Stockader a spy, if you like. If it were for myself alone I might trust you, but so much may hang " He stopped abruptly and his eyes darkened. "The only sure way lies at my knife-point." He scanned intently the face which paled before his gaze, yet changed not in the smallest line.

Not a Doomsman set out upon his long journey to the shadowland but that a Southron was forced to bear him company. It was well done a good fight, the sword-point driven home, and then the dropping of the curtain. Hail! a hail! to our brothers who have passed beyond." A few wavering and uncertain voices took up the cry, but it quickly died away before the uplifted hand of Prosper, the priest.

Only through Ulick's passion for this slip of a girl could the Doomsman hope to control him. What an admirable stroke, then, to snatch the card from his hand before he had a chance to play it. "I will help you," he continued, aloud. "But where to find a boat?" "There is a canoe which is generally kept moored at the garden dock; you can see it from the terrace. It is a good, stout dugout, and, oh "

The Doomsman caught it dexterously and fastened it on his breast. Another low bow and, wheeling his horse, he dashed down the slope. Constans ran blindly to meet him; why, he did not know. He who named himself Quinton Edge swerved slightly in his course so as to pass within arm's-length, calling out as he did so: "Gage of battle and gage of love; a fortunate day for me.

The morning it cannot be far distant now " Quinton Edge at the threshold held up a beckoning finger, and Constans went to him. "It is upon us," said the Doomsman. "The out-buildings are smoking already, and the lumber-yard on the north will become a furnace the instant that the first spark falls there. There is but one chance the river. You will find a boat at the dock.

He would see Anne before the earl could, and appease her anger, obtain her silence! For Warner and for Sibyll, they would not dare to reveal; and, if they did, the lips that accuse a king soon belie themselves, while a rack can torture truth, and the doomsman be the only judge between the subject and the head that wears a crown. Thus reasoning with himself, his soul faced the solitude.

Constans tried to command his voice, but he could not speak, and Quinton Edge turned to Esmay: "We have both of us omitted to remember where courtesy is first due. Madam, I should have informed myself of your pleasure in this matter." "No, oh no!" she stammered. The Doomsman laughed.

That they might linger along, he selected a convict who had been made blind and tongueless, and sank him in the only connecting cell, there to serve them with food and drink. Under no circumstances could the poor wretch tell the tale or identify either the prisoners or their doomsman.