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The mother's heart was bound up in him, as if there were no other life in danger that day; Edwy or Edgar, it was little to her in comparison with her longing for her first-born son. "He is in God's Hands, dearest!" returned her husband; "and in better Hands than ours." Well might the thoughts of the lady Edith be concentrated on the crisis before her.
"Redwald, my trusty champion," said Edwy, "this is the first campaign thou hast ever returned from unsuccessful. Tell us, how did Dunstan outwit you?" "By the aid of the devil, my liege." "Doubtless; but we had all hoped for a different result, and that thou wouldst either have left the traitor no eyes in his head, or no head on his shoulders. "Said I not rightly, my Elgiva?"
The light revealed a small but apparently select party, who seemed to await the prince: a lady, who appeared to be the mistress of the mansion; a young girl apparently about the age of Edwy, who, calling her his fair cousin, saluted her fondly; and two or three youths, whose gaudy dress and affected manners were strongly in contrast with the stern simplicity of the times.
It will be remembered that the lineage of the present royal house passes through the last-named son of Edmund Ironside to Egbert: Edgar * Edward the Martyr, d. 979. * Ethelred the Unready, d. 1016. + Edmund Ironside, 1016. o Edmund. o Edward, who became the great-grandfather of Henry the Second. + Edwy. + Elgitha. + Alfred, 1036. + Edward the Confessor, 1066. xvi Sceorstan.
Nothing but her death could now give security to Odo and the monks; and the most cruel death was requisite to satiate their vengeance. Osberne, p. 83, 105. Alur. The English, blinded with superstition, instead of being shocked with this inhumanity, exclaimed that the misfortunes of Edwy and his consort were a just judgment for their dissolute contempt of the ecclesiastical statutes.
"Father," said Elfric, in a voice somewhat expressive of awe, "it is Prince Edwy!" The thane had in his earlier days been at court, and had known the murdered Edmund, the royal father of his guest, intimately. It was not without emotion, therefore, that he welcomed the son to his home, and saluted him with that manly yet reverential homage their relative positions required of him.
He scarcely slept at all, and early in the morning he rose to seek an interview with Edwy, when he found that he was a prisoner. One of the hus-carles posted at his door forbade all communication.
Elfric had been about to kneel and kiss the royal hand, in token of homage, but Edwy saw the intention and prohibited him. "No more of that an thou lovest me, Elfric; my poor hand is almost worn out already." "The day must have tired you, the scene was so exciting."
He became abbot of that place, and Bishop of Worcester and London. At the coronation of Edwy he intruded himself into the king's presence, and was afterwards obliged to retire to Ghent. He held the See of Canterbury for twenty-seven years, and on his death was buried in the cathedral, where countless miracles are said to have been worked at his tomb.
There was something in his look and the tone of his voice which struck a hidden chord, and awoke recollections as if of a previous existence. "Redwald," as Edwy named him, was tall and dark, with many of the characteristics of the Danish race about him.
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