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"So much the better if the watch of the executioner is too fast your follies will not dishonor me." "Madame," said the prison warder, with that kind of commiseration which forebodes death, "your son is here; will you see him?" "Yes," answered the widow, without turning her head. "Enter, sir," said the warder. Martial entered.
"I saw Jacques today for the first time. He tells me there was a tremendous row when your escape was discovered. The warder, and every soldier who had been on duty that night, were arrested and questioned. The warder was the one first suspected, on the ground that you must have had assistance from without.
His horn was at his lips, and in another moment, the blast rang out through the Castle. With a loud shout, both boys rushed headlong up the turret stairs, and came to the top so breathless, that they could not even ask the warder what he saw. He pointed, and the keen-eyed Alberic exclaimed, "I see! Look, my Lord, a speck there on the heath!" "I do not see! where, oh where?"
A few hours' walk in a prison yard, with a warder on the wall with a gun in his hand overhead. Then locked up again, Sundays and week-days, no difference. Sometimes I think they'd better have hanged me right off. If I feel all these things now I've only been a few months doing my sentence, how about next year, and the year after that, and so on, and so on?
Fergus had, all along, considered that there would be no difficulty in suddenly attacking and overpowering the warder, when he came in or out of his room, for no special precautions were taken. The fact that the prisoners were all in their uniforms, and that on showing themselves below they would be instantly arrested, seemed to forbid all chance of their making any attempt to escape.
"Let me see the burgomaster's order," said the worthy gatekeeper. "I am always glad to be accommodating." Castleman handed over the order and the purse, and the warder pretended to read the paper in the dark. "I'll open the gate to accommodate you and to please the burgomaster," he said.
They went with me upon my private quarrel, and they died. Ah, well! It has been long ago!" His breath came in a heavy sigh. "I am not now so keen a hunter for my own. In God's hands is justice as well as mercy, and when death throws down the warder I shall understand. In the mean while I await I that speak to you now and I that betrayed you four years agone."
"The Lady and her train." "Saint Taffy and Saint Guenhyfar!" said the warder. "Put forth the bridge!" roared the trumpeter. "It had peen better to send word," calmly returned the warder. "Send word to thy Lord, thou lither oaf!" cried the irate trumpeter, "and see whether it liketh him to keep the Lady awaiting hither on an even in January, while thou pratest in chopped English!"
He looked up, and, on seeing Madge, rose and held out his hands with a cry of delight. She ran forward, and threw herself on his breast with a stifled sob. For a short time no one spoke Calton being at the other end of the cell, busy with some notes which he had taken from his pocket, and the warder having retired.
"Evening, Gurn," he said; "it's six o'clock, and the restaurant-keeper opposite wants to know if he is to send your dinner in to you." "No," Gurn growled. "I'll have the prison ordinary." "Oh ho!" said the warder; "funds low, eh?
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