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As to thee, Giles, thou guileful rogue, hast full oft vaunted thyself a soldier of experience, so now am I minded to prove thee and thy methods. How if I give thee charge over the bowmen of Belsaye?" "So be it.
Beltane, tell thy father that I O dear my my Beltane " So died the gracious lady Abbess that had been the proud Yolande, Duchess of Pentavalon, wept and bemoaned by full many who had known her tender care; and, in due season, she was laid to rest within the fair Minster of Belsaye.
Choose ye now each ten men of your companies that shall abide here with ye what time I am away yet first mark this: In your hands do I leave this fair city, to your care I give the lives and well-being of all these men and women and children. Come now, lay here your hands upon my sword and swear me to maintain Belsaye to the last man 'gainst siege or storm, so long as life be in you!"
'tis not yet invested these be divers of Benedict's spies out of Bourne, to grace thy gibbets. Come, unbar down with the drawbridge; open I say must I wait thy rogue's pleasure?" "Not so, noble lord. Belsaye this night doth welcome thee with open arms and ye be in sooth Sir Robert of Hurstmanswyke." "Ha, do ye doubt me, knave? Dare ye keep me without?
But the men of Belsaye have stubborn memories; Sir Gui and his butchers slumber in a false security, for stern men are they and strong, and wait but God's appointed time. Pray God that time be soon!" "Amen!" said Beltane. Now, even as he spake came the sound of a distant tucket, the great gates of Belsaye swung wide, and forth rode a company of men-at-arms, their bascinets agleam 'neath the moon.
"Messire," said Beltane beginning to frown, "within thy wild and foolish talk is this much truth, that I, with divers trusty comrades, did indeed burn down the shameful gallows of Belsaye, and bore captive a certain lordly knave. As for Garthlaxton, the thing was simple "
Now here beside me sitteth Sir Fidelis, who though methinks the most youthful of us all, hath a head in council wiser than us all. For he hath spoke me that whereby though few in number and lacking engines for battery, Giles we yet may win through the walls of Belsaye ere sun-down. Know you this country, Walkyn?" WALKYN. "As my hand, lord." BELTANE. "Is there a village hereabouts?"
"He hath reinforced Belsaye garrison and all the coast towns and castles of the Marches, and lieth at Pentavalon, gathering his powers to attack Thrasfordham, so men say, and hath sworn to burn it within the year, and all therein save only Sir Benedict him will he hang; 'tis so proclaimed far and wide." "And do men yet come in to Sir Benedict?" "Not so, master.
"Then where, I pray you, is she that came here yesterday?" "Nay, lord, how may I tell thee this? There be many women in Belsaye town." "For me," quoth Beltane, "in all the world there is but one and to this one, alas! thou canst not aid me, yet for thy kind intent I thank thee, and so farewell, sweet maid." Thus saying, he took three steps away from her, then turning, came back in two.
Down creaked drawbridge; bars fell, bolts groaned, the massy gates swung wide and Sir Robert and his esquires, with his weary captives stumbling in their jangling chains, and his thirty men-at-arms riding two by two, paced into Belsaye market square; the drawbridge rose, creaking, while gates clashed and bar and chain rattled ominously behind them.
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