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All that day Richard Wood kept a sharp eye on his new acquaintances. "Watch them narrowly," he said to his men. "They will seek to make this catch without us and so obtain the reward. Therefore all that ye see them do, do ye likewise, and I will also do the same." Herebald and Bernulf saw and understood, and laughed together unseen.
He therefore went forward with renewed animation, and when, at set of sun, he stopped before a little Yarmouth inn, he was well satisfied with himself. "Do ye also lodge here?" he asked the Saxons. Herebald affected to be uncertain. "Surely it were better that ye do so," urged Richard Wood, "that we may search the town and the ships together on the morrow." "Nay," put in Bernulf.
Then he said, "Your caution shall be obeyed." And he gave the command to his followers to be careful. Herebald now returned to the side of Bernulf, and the two, gazing with mirthful eyes into each other's faces, separated themselves a little distance and pretended to examine the way narrowly. It was not for nothing that they had served the merry Canon Thurstan for seven years.
Herebald reiterated his promise to do so, and then went away with Bernulf, while Richard Wood followed his men into the bar, where they were already drinking. "What meanest thou, Bernulf? Why wouldst thou not lodge here?" asked Herebald as they rode along. "Why, this, Herebald," was the answer. "We have much to do ere we go to rest.
The camp where they had come up with them before was deserted, and Herebald and Bernulf now had for their task the discovery of the direction the party had taken. Had they not been fen-men they might not have succeeded. But by night they felt that they were really on their trail.
Then they all climbed into the small row-boat and were pulled away toward Eric's ship. "Ay, we will watch," said Herebald to Bernulf. A little later the boat went alongside, and the spy and his men-at-arms climbed heavily and clumsily aboard, after a brief parley with skipper Eric, in which he had at first refused them permission to do so.
Bernulf, the Mercian King, who marched against them, was defeated and slain; and two years after, Ludican, his successor, met with the same fate. These insurrections and calamities facilitated the enterprises of Egbert, who advanced into the centre of the Mercian territories and made easy conquests over a dispirited and divided people.
They be not so weary as we, and a plague upon their endurance. If ye stand not by me, the game is lost." But the man-at-arms answered sullenly: "I have said. Lead us out of this vile marsh." "And now," said the canon, when Herebald and Bernulf had gone, "thou mayest remain no longer here. It is too near the king, and moreover, delay taketh thee not forward toward France.
Upon hearing this all three of the weary men-at-arms clamored for places in the boat which Herebald, after a conference with Bernulf, promised them. "Hearest thou not, Herebald," said Bernulf, "that the king's man feareth the water?
"And it is a small thing to do for a kinsman also moreover." "And now go we ashore," said Bernulf. "To-morrow morn we aid the king's spy to search the town. He will have a merry run up and down the Rows, he and his men." And, with a hearty farewell to the skipper, Herebald and Bernulf climbed down the side of the vessel to their little boat gently rocking alongside.
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