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"And you played with it in the window there and left it there." "Is I naughty?" "Not very naughty if you tell me. Did you leave it there?" Charlotte's lip trembled. "I putted it to bed in the curtain by a mousehole, and it's all gone, naughty mousie." "Go and see, Renata, if there's a hole there." "Please," said Charlotte gravely. "Please what?" "Please go and see." Aymer laughed.
But you are right and there are my father and Christopher himself." Christopher to his great joy had been allowed to drive down with Aymer and Mr. Aston, and had found the journey not one mile too long. Indeed towards the end his early curiosity as to the termination had evaporated and the mile-stones had come in sight and vanished all too quickly.
Then he recollected Mr. Aston's prohibition and got red and embarrassed. "You mean a woman," said Aymer in a strangely quiet voice. Christopher noticed the scar again, clear and distinct. Aymer took out a cigarette and lit it carefully. Christopher watched dumbly. He wanted to cry: for no reason that he could discover.
"It is," answered Sir Aymer, "what seems of high importance to your interest, Sir John de Walton, and therefore I were to blame if I lost a moment in communicating it." "I shall be proud to profit by your intelligence," said Sir John de Walton. "And I too," said the young knight, "am both to lose the credit of having penetrated a mystery which blinded Sir John de Walton.
Nay, he also possesses that zeal for his duty which induces him to throw blame, if there be the slightest ground for it, upon Aymer de Valence himself, although his uncle, the Earl of Pembroke, was John de Walton's steady patron, and laid the beginning of his good fortune; for all which, by training up his nephew in the true discipline of the French wars, Sir John has taken the best way of showing himself grateful to the eld Earl."
Meantime it occurred to Sir Aymer de Valence, that though in displaying the usual degree of hospitality shown, to such a man as Bertram, he had merely done what was becoming his own rank, as one possessed of the highest honours of chivalry the self-styled minstrel might not in reality be a man of that worth which he assumed.
At length, however, fate seemed disposed to interfere; the Knight of Fleming, pushing fiercely forward, and brought by chance almost close to the person of the Lady Margaret de Hautlieu, missed his blow, and his foot sliding in the blood of the young victim, Dickson, he fell before his antagonist, and was in imminent danger of being at his mercy, when Margaret de Hautlieu, who inherited the soul of a warrior, and, besides, was a very strong, as well as an undaunted person, seeing a mace of no great weight lying on the floor, where it had been dropped by the fallen Dickson, it, at the same instant, caught her eye, armed her hand, and intercepted, or struck down the sword of Sir Aymer de Valence, who would otherwise have remained the master of the day at that interesting moment.
Several of these men were still alive at the time of the Rehabilitation and gave their recollections of this examination, though its formal records have not been preserved. A Dominican monk, Aymer, one of an order she loved, addressed her gravely with the severity with which that institution is always credited.
"'Conclamatum est, poculatum est'," said Prior Aymer; "we have drunk and we have shouted, it were time we left our wine flagons." "The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart," said De Bracy. "Not so, Sir Knight," replied the Abbot; "but I must move several miles forward this evening upon my homeward journey."
People had a weak way of obeying Aymer on occasions, even against their will. "Now, Miss Charlotte," said Aymer, when the young lady was safely deposited by him, "tell me about it. What golden penny was it?" But Charlotte got suddenly red and stopped crying. "Were you playing with it yesterday in the window?" asked her uncle. Charlotte nodded. "Was it your penny or mine?"
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