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"Now, you sea-cocks," said Winter, springing up, "we'll to the Bolldyke Gate, and all start fair." The Bolldyke Gate was on fire; and more, so were the suburbs. There was no time to save them, as Hereward would gladly have done, for the sake of the poor corrodiers. They must go, on to the Bolldyke Gate. Who cared to put out flames behind him, with all the treasures of Golden Borough before him?
"Have you forgotten the peat-stack outside Bolldyke Gate, and how you bade light it under me thirty years since?"
Winter stood, laughing and jeering again, for full ten minutes. At last: "I asked, and you have not answered: have you forgotten the peat-stack outside Bolldyke Gate? For if you have, Hereward has not. He has piled it against the gate, and it should be burnt through by this time. Go and see." Herluin disappeared with a curse.
But he felt all the more intensely as did men of his day the things he could not speak. All he said was aside to Winter, "It is a dark job. I wish it had been done in the dark." And Winter knew what he meant. Then the men rushed into the Bolldyke Gate, while Hereward and Winter stood and looked with their men, whom they kept close together, waiting their commands.
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