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James Douglas had obtained the keys from Gervais Bonpoint, the trusty agent of the Avondales in Paris, who also attended to the foreign concerns of most others of the Scottish nobility. So the four men had taken possession, none saying them nay, and, indeed, in the disordered state of the government, but few being aware of their presence.
For in these times of peril jewels and lands were as nothing to the value of such a suit of armour, which kings and princes might well have made war to obtain. The faintest disembodied ghost of a smile passed over the face of the Countess of Douglas. "It is the best I can do with it now," she said, "and at least no one of the Avondales shall ever possess it."
If ye gat not settlement this day, why then ye gat it the neist, with never a word of drawback nor craving for batement." Sholto told them briefly concerning the tragedy of Edinburgh. He had no will for any waste of words, and as briefly thereafter of the loss of the little maid and her companion. The Bailie of Dumfries lifted up his hands in consternation. "'Tis surely a plot o' thae Avondales.
He bethought him on all that was bygone. The Avondales were gone, James the Gross might die any moment might even now be dead and William Douglas be Earl in his place! He thought over William of Avondale's last words to himself, spoken with deep solemnity and in all the dignity of a great spirit. "Sholto, you and yours have brought to justice the chief betrayer.
Then after a pause she said, again with her finger on her lip, "I wonder which of them would do most for my sake?" "I know!" said Maud Lindesay, promptly. With the young Avondales there had ridden forth Malise and his son Laurence on their way to the Abbey of Dulce Cor. Sholto went also with them to convoy them to the fords of Urr. For Laurence was to be a clerk after all.
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