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Updated: June 10, 2025
So the smocks were donned, with straw about their legs bound by withies as was the custom, and taking the sacks upon their shoulders, they turned aside into the green and were gone. Sir Gui of Allerdale, lord Seneschal of Belsaye town, rode hawk on fist at the head of divers noble knights and gentle esquires with verderers and falconers attendant.
"I must go back," said Beltane, loosening sword in scabbard, "for needs must I this night have word with Gui of Allerdale." "Nay," whispered the friar, with pleading hand on Beltane's arm, "'tis thing impossible " "Yet must I try, good brother " "Ah, dear my son, 'twill be thy death "
"Aha!" he cried, "the fire ye kindle here shall set the Duchy in a flame mayhap, to burn Black Ivo with Gui of Allerdale and Red Pertolepe mayhap! For them, fire on earth and flame in hell aha! To burn the gibbet! 'tis well bethought: so shall carrion kite and jay go light-bellied hereabouts, mayhap, oho!
"Nay, Roger, sworn art thou to redeem Pentavalon: so now, in her name do I charge thee, haste to Sir Jocelyn, an he yet live seek Giles and Walkyn and whoso else ye may, and bring them hither at speed. If ye find me not here, then hie ye all to Thrasfordham, for by to-morrow Sir Pertolepe and Gui of Allerdale will have raised the country against us.
And many of Ivo's rogues we slew until of those knights and men-at-arms that burned our home there none remained save Red Pertolepe and Gui of Allerdale. But in the green love came even to me so I laid by mine axe and vengeance likewise and came to know happiness until upon a day they hanged my brother, and thereafter they slew her my wife and child e'en as ye saw.
Thus amid a lane of pallid faces that stared and shrank away, the tall miller came unto the wondering pike-men burst their ranks and leapt upon the dais where stood the gilded chair. "Ho! soldiers and men-at-arms good people of Belsaye call ye for Gui in sooth? hunger ye for sight of Bloody Gui of Allerdale in faith?
"Didst not have thy hand on the throat of that cold, smiling rogue Sir Gui of Allerdale?" "Verily, messire." "And hold within thy grasp the life of that foul-living Gilles of Brandonmere, whose father I slew twelve years agone, I thank God!" "'Tis true, good Benedict." "And didst not suffer these arch-knaves to live on and work their pestilent wills, Beltane?" "Sir, I did, but "
And how should he, confident in his strength and might, hale and lusty in his body, come to think on death sharp and swift? Thus Sir Gui of Allerdale, lord Seneschal of Belsaye town, rode upon his way, with eyes that glowed with the love of life, and tongue that curled 'twixt smiling lips as one that savoured its sweetness or meditated coming joys.
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