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I could have gone over to Mycening and brought you home a leg of mutton." "Don't expose what a cub you are!" muttered the despairing Eustace. "It is a deena a la Roos." "I thought the Russians ate blubber," observed Harold, somewhat unfeelingly, though I don't think he saw the joke; but I managed to reassure him, sotto voce, as to there being something solid in the background.
It is impossible he can have confessed thus. Hast thou done so, villain?" "I have," replied Luke Hatton, sullenly. "Then thou hast avouched a lie a lie that will damn thee," said Lady Exeter. "Lord Roos knows it to be false, and can exculpate me. Speak, my Lord, I charge you, and say how it occurred." But the young nobleman remained silent.
Lord Roos saw the peril in which he stood. A moment more and Lady Lake had gained her point, and the Countess betrayed herself. "Lady Exeter will place little reliance on any representations you may make, Madam," he said, giving particular significance to his words, "except so far as they concern herself, and then she will take care to refute them.
The same I do now again, for I yet nothing doubt, but that, although the Lord Roos was sent away, and is dead, yet truth lives." The truth, however, was never fully brought to light; and that justice which the vindictive lady expected was denied her. The two warrants.
We had to act with great firmness and determination to put a stop to these tendencies and within a week of our arrival half a dozen persons had been incarcerated in Roos Senekal gaol under a charge of high treason. Moreover we effected a radical change in leadership, discharging old and war-sick officers and placing younger and more energetic men in command.
"To be sure we must," Gillian cried; "I will go there alone, if you will not go with me." Satisfied with what he had heard, Lord Roos moved away, nodding approval at Gillian. The cavalcade, as we have said, was once more in motion, but before it had proceeded far, it was again, most unexpectedly, brought to a halt.
"I am afraid her ladyship cannot see very clearly." "I see clearly enough that a trick has been practised upon me," Lady Lake rejoined sharply. "But let Lord Roos look to himself. I will have my revenge, and a terrible one it shall be." "Do not commit yourself," said Sir Thomas in a low tone.
Around the hall might be traced the armorial bearings of the lord of the castle and the chief families with whom the lord of the castle was allied by blood the three water-budgets of De Roos; the three Katherine-wheels of Espec; the engrailed cross of De Vesci; the seven blackbirds of Merley; the lion argent of Dunbar in its field of gules; and the ruddy lion of Scotland, ramping in gold; while on the roof was depicted the castle itself, with gates, and battlements, and pinnacles, and towers; and there also, very conspicuous, was the form of a rose, and around it was inscribed in Gothic letters the legend
"When Sarah Swarton hath been so habited, I have more than once mistaken her for your ladyship." "Yet Sarah is very unlike me," said Lady Roos. "That only shows how deceptive appearances are, chuck, and how little we ought to trust to them," observed Lord Roos. "How can you suffer yourself to be thus duped, Elizabeth?" said Lady Lake.
"You do not adopt the means to make me calm, mother," replied Lady Roos. But Lady Lake was too much bent upon the immediate and full gratification of her long-deferred vengeance to heed her. Clapping her hands together, the signal was answered by Sir Thomas Lake, who came forth from the adjoining room with Luke Hatton.
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