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But and it was a new and unexpected fact to one of her excitable Southern blood, easily raised, and easily depressed she discovered that neither her husband, nor Winter, nor Geri, nor Wenoch, nor Ranald of Ramsey, nor even the romancing harping Leofric, thought that all was lost. She argued it with them, not to persuade them into base submission, but to satisfy her own surprise.
Then he turned on another, and did the same by him. Wenoch and Matelgar each upset their man. The fifth of Letwold's knights threw up his lance-point, not liking his new company. Geri and the other two rode in on the two chiefs, who were fighting hard, each under shield. "Stand back!" roared Hereward, "and give the knight fair play! When did any one of us want a man to help him?
"Gnawed them through, Sire, as we suppose, and escaped through the mire in the dark, after the fashion of these accursed frogs of Girvians." "But did he tell you naught ere he bade you good morning?" "He told as the names of all the seven. He that beat down the swords was Hereward himself." "I thought as much. When shall I have that fellow at my side?" "He that fought Richard was one Wenoch."
The Ogre's magic blade had snapt off short by the handle. "Your master is a true Englishman, by the hardness of his brains," quoth Wenoch, as the stranger, reeling for a moment, lifted up his head, and stared at Hereward in the face, doubtful what to do. "Will you yield, or fight on?" cried he.
For afterwards, as he himself confessed, things went not so well with him as they did in her time." And the first thing that went ill was this. He was riding through the Bruneswald, and behind him Geri, Wenoch, and Matelgar, these three. And there met him in an open glade a knight, the biggest man he had ever seen, on the biggest horse, and five knights behind him.
So Hereward if the chronicles speak truth assembled a formidable force, well-nigh, at last, four hundred men. Winter, Geri, Wenoch, Grogan, one of the Azers of Lincoln, were still with him. Ranald the butler still carried his standard. Of Duti and Outi, the famous brothers, no more is heard.
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