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"I heard it rebound from his horned helmet, and drop to the floor," said Bouchier. "What is that chest?" cried Henry, pointing to a strange coffin-shaped box, lying, as it seemed, on the exact spot where the demon had disappeared. No one had seen it before, though all called to mind the mysterious hammering; and they had no doubt that the coffin was the work of the demon.
"Why did you not arrest him?" inquired Henry. "I did not like to do so without your majesty's authority," replied Bouchier. "Besides, I could scarcely arrest Hagthorne without at the same time securing the old forester, which might have alarmed the damsel. But I am ready to execute your injunctions now."
They were headed by Captain Bouchier, who at a sign from the king instantly dismounted. "Give me your horse, Bouchier," said Henry, "and do you and half-a-dozen of your men remain on guard at this tree till I send a troop of arquebusiers to relieve you. When they arrive, station them near it, and let them remain here till I return in the morning. If any one appears, make him a prisoner."
The next moment Bouchier came up, flung himself from his panting steed, and, with his drawn sword in hand, forced himself through a rift in its side into the tree. There was a hollow within it large enough to allow a man to stand upright, and two funnel-like holes ran upwards into the branches.
"This is strange indeed, my liege," replied Bouchier, at the close of the king's recital, "and to my thinking, is proof convincing that we have to do with a supernatural being." "Supernatura! pshaw! banish the idle notion," rejoined Henry sternly. "We are all the dupes of some jugglery. The caitiff will doubtless return to the forest. Continue your search, therefore, for him throughout the night.
Bouchier replied in the affirmative. "It is well," pursued Henry; "but what more? for you look as if you had something further to declare." "Your majesty will not have forgotten how you exterminated the band of Herne the Hunter?" said Bouchier. "Mother of Heaven, no!" cried the king, starting up; "I have not forgotten it. What of them?
The next moment Captain Bouchier rode up, followed by a small band of halberdiers, and receiving information from the falconer of what had occurred, darted with his men into the wood in search of the fugitive. Nicholas Clamp and his companion did not await the issue of the search, but proceeded on their way.
To-morrow she will take her place as attendant to the Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald." So saying, he moved off with Bouchier and the rest of his attendants, leaving Mabel to the care of the cook's good humoured spouse, who seeing her eyes filled with tears, strove to cheer her, and led her towards a small side-table, where she pressed wine and cates upon her.
As he advanced the rapid trampling of horses was heard, accompanied by shouts, and presently afterwards a troop of wild-looking horsemen in fantastic garbs was seen galloping down the hill, pursued by Bouchier and his followers.
Of the Mysterious Noise heard in the Curfew Tower. On quitting the kitchen, Henry, having been informed by Bouchier that Tristram Lyndwood was lodged in the prison-chamber in the lower gateway, proceeded thither to question him.
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