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All were now induced to tax their memory as to the former state of the ruins in that corner of the chancel, and all agreed in recollecting a considerable pile of rubbish which must have been removed and spread abroad in order to make the tomb visible.
Purchas, no doubt, could have told all that we so gladly would know of Hudson's early history. But he did not tell it and we must rest content, I think well content, with that poetic beginning at the chancel rail of St. Ethelburga's of the strong life that less than four years later came to its epic ending.
The soldier had meantime returned with an old woman, both loaded with bedding, which she signed to them to arrange in one of the little bays or niches that served to form a crown of lesser chapels around the chancel.
When he rose, I came up the aisle towards him, and my mail clanged noisily as I walked in the hush. At the chancel steps I stood, helm in hand, and did reverence, not daring to speak first. "What is it?" asked the bishop, when he turned and saw me. "Speak, Wulfric, my son. Is all well?" "I have heavy news, father," I answered. "Close on us are the Danes, and you must fly.
Lovel accordingly found the staircase well aired, and, though narrow, it was neither ruinous nor long, but speedily admitted them into a narrow gallery contrived to run within the side wall of the chancel, from which it received air and light through apertures ingeniously hidden amid the florid ornaments of the Gothic architecture.
Behind the apse of the chancel, lay the cemetery, enclosed with a dilapidated wall, a little field full of hillocks; no marble monuments, no visitors, but surely in every furrow, tears and true regrets, which were lacking to Ida Gruget. She was cast into a corner full of tall grass and brambles.
A net-work of low stone walls put loosely together, marking off the absurdly small fields, straggled over the face of the landscape, looking in the curious evening light like a great grey web fantastically spun by some humorous spider. The brown figure of a shepherd with a sheep crook in his hand rose up on a distant hill. He might be a sacred figure in the red chancel of the western sky.
Say, how has it fared with you since you fled through the chancel door of that at Blythburgh Manor? No, I forgot, that was not the last time we met. A man in a yellow cap ripped off your mask in a by-street near the Place of Arms one night and said something which it did not please you to hear." "Water!" moaned Nicholas. "For Christ's sake give me water!"
Nave and chancel are of the same width, and the arcades run from end to end of the church really without a break, though half way a wall, borne by three arches, crosses the church separating the chancel and its chapels from the nave.
At the foot of the monument erected to the memory of General Oglethorpe, was added the following inscription: "His disconsolate Widow died October 26,1787, in her 79th year, and is buried with him, in the vault in the centre of this Chancel. Her fortitude of mind and extensive charity deserve to be remembered, though her own modesty would desire them to be forgotten."
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