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Then I should like to see him shoot at somebody else," answered Acour, for in those days such skill was of interest to all soldiers. "Kill Hugh de Cressi if you will, friend, but spare Grey Dick; he might be useful." "Ay, Sir Edmund," broke in the young man furiously, "I'll kill him if I can catch him, the dog who dares to bring scandal on my sister's name.
"Sir Edmund Acour in England, and in France the high and puissant Count of Noyon, and in Italy, near to the city of Venice for there, too, he has possessions which came to him through his grandmother the Seigneur of Cattrina." "And having so much, does he want you, too, as I have heard, Eve? And if so, why?"
"My enemy and his familiar, for man he can scarcely be," went on Acour, pointing first to Hugh and then to Dick, "survived all my plans to kill them and instead killed those whom I had sent after them. I learned that the woman and the priest were not dead, but fled, and followed them, and after me came my enemy and his familiar.
Then some one overset the tapers, so that the place was plunged in gloom, and through it none saw Acour and his train creep out by the chancel door and hurry to their horses, which waited saddled in the inner yard. The frightened congregation fled from the nave with white faces, each seeking his own place, or any other that was far from Blythburgh Manor.
Further, that this Acour alleged himself to be the lawfully married husband of Eve Clavering, the heiress of Sir John Clavering, a point upon which his Grace demanded information, since if this were true he purposed to escheat the Clavering lands. With this brief and stern announcement the letter ended. "By God's mercy, Eve, tell me, are you this fellow's wife?" exclaimed Hugh.
I told neither you nor any one all the blackness of his treachery. Have you guessed what this Acour is here to do?" "Spy out the King's power in these parts, I suppose." "More than that" and he dropped his voice to a whisper "spy out a safe landing-place for fifty thousand Normans upon our Suffolk coast.
Presently above this whispering a soft yet penetrating voice was heard to say: "If this English knight desires to study the poor face of Acour, de Noyon, and Cattrina, he who owns it is much honoured and prays your Excellency's leave to wait upon his pleasure."
But search as they would upon seashore and river-bank, nothing of him was ever seen again. This funeral was celebrated in the darkness, since neither Sir John nor Acour desired that all men should see three bodies that had been slain by one archer, aided by a merchant's lad, standing alone against a score, and know, to say naught of the wounded, that there was yet another to be added to the tale.
Because, if so, I will do my best, provided " and he looked at the pocket of Acour's robe. "How much?" asked Acour. The man named a great sum, half to be paid down and half on the delivery of the papers. "I'll double it," said Acour, "if you can bring it about that these insolent Englishmen die of the pest." "How can I do that, lord?" asked Basil with a sour smile.
So saying a tall and noble-looking man, who wore the badge of a white swan worked in pearls upon his rich tunic, stepped forward out of the ring of courtiers and bowed, first to the Doge and next to Hugh. De Cressi looked at his handsome face with its quick dark eyes and little, square-cut, black beard, and answered: "I thank you, Sir Edmund Acour, for I take it you are he.
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