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His address was brief and emphatic; and upon its conclusion the Protector commanded Springall to advance. "It appears to us that you had something to communicate." "I believe I made a mistake," replied the boy, "I took you your Highness, I should say for one Major Wellmore." "We know you to be a faithful watchman, but it remains to be proved if you are an honest witness.
Yet he has no right to the high place whereon he sits; and " "You would pull him down?" "I confess it." "The time will come when I will discuss the merits of this case with you," said Wellmore, after a pause; "albeit I like not discussion; 'tis not a soldier's weapon; but you are worthy of the effort. I like you, though you are mine enemy, and that is more than I can say of many friends.
The youth bowed, though, when he afterwards thought upon the simile, he pondered on the strangeness that one like Wellmore should seek metaphors from the flowers of the field.
"But I don't understand it," at length murmured Robin; "I can't see it: how could he possibly suffer Sir Willmott Burrell to place him in confinement?" "It was not he at all," replied Barbara; "it was Major Wellmore, and he is at the Place now."
And then the Major he has been here two or three times, and they call him Wellmore although worthy Jabez Tippet, the boatman, swears no, not swears declares, that no such person ever crosses the ferry: yet is he dumb as a tortoise as to who does. Well, the Major and the young gentleman went off in a flash of lightning, or something of the sort; for Sir Willmott and my master could not find him.
"Do you remember what he dared, by way of adventure, not a hundred miles from this; when Major Wellmore and Walter De Guerre were masquing it here so gaily?" inquired Robin. "Ay, ay! But he and Grimstone were both half-seas over, or they'd have hardly ventured it: poor Grim paid the penalty." "And deserved it too," added Robin.
Burrell attempted, at the same instant, to steal the weapon from his hand: the Cavalier grasped it firmly; while Major Wellmore, darting on the false knight a withering look, emphatically observed, and with a total change of manner, "I can, methinks, make good a capture without your aid, kind sir; although I fully appreciate your zeal in the cause of the Commonwealth!"
And now, most worthy baronet, as master of this mansion, I pray you to present me to him who hath a swift arm and a ready hand for the defence of an attacked soldier." "Major Wellmore, young gentleman; a tried and trusty friend to the English Commonwealth and its Protector!" said Sir Robert at last; adding, as if in apology for his emotion "Constance! this strange megrim in my head!"
Springall had quitted Cecil Place the morning after his encounter with Major Wellmore, of whom he persisted in speaking as "the strong spectre-man;" and neither Robin's entreaties nor Dalton's commands could prevail on or force him again to take up his abode within the house.
"If Lady Constance would have broken the unjust contract," replied Walter, reasoning for once with something like coolness, "I should not have thought of asking your opinion, or consulting your wishes, Major Wellmore."
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