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His under suit was made of the ordinary gray frieze worn generally among the Doomsmen, and now neither Prosper nor the witnesses of the fracas at the gate would be likely to identify him. Constans gazed about him with lively interest. Yet so accurate had been his previous bird's-eye observations that he found but little to add to them.
Then, drawing his belt tight, he started on a dog-trot in the contrary direction; the barrier, admitting him to the protection of the stockade, was still some distance away, and he must reach it without delay and give the warning. But, even as he ran, he heard the tolling of a bell; it was the alarm that the Doomsmen were abroad.
The dangling rope of the alarm-bell grazed his hand; he clutched at it, and a clang re-echoed through the court-yard, rousing the recreant warders from their slumbers. In that same instant Quinton Edge blew his whistle. The Doomsmen must have already crossed the moat and been close up to the water gate, for the response to their leader's call was immediate.
He had purposely diverged from the direct line in approaching it, being shrewdly of the opinion that the stronghold of the Doomsmen was not far distant. He was convinced of the truth of this conjecture when he reached the next cross-street, which debouched into the public square already mentioned.
Moreover, it rankles in the Houseman's breast that no Stockader pays a farthing of head-money to the treasure-chest of the Doomsmen. Now and then some well-to-do proprietor may suffer loss from cattle thieving and rick burning, but as often as not the marauders pay full price for all they get.
Brice; they murdered Alfred, the brother of their last King, and decimated the Normans who were with him. Yonder they stand, malefactors that await their doom! and ye the doomsmen! Never, even in a good cause, were yon English illustrious for warlike temper and martial glory . Remember how easily the Danes subdued them! Are ye less than Danes, or I than Canute?
It appeared that the district actually inhabited by the Doomsmen included only the fortified square and a few of the city blocks contiguous to it on the north. The distance from the citadel to the library building and Dom Gillian's house was about a mile, and it was some five miles further to the tidal estuary which formed the northern boundary of the city proper.
Society had dealt, mercilessly, with the breaker of laws, and now it was to suffer in its turn. But the years rolled on, and with the new generations came a slow but sweeping change in sentiment. The Doomsmen were now the dominant race, and the Housemen had become their vassals.
Towards the end of January the snow came in earnest: it lay a foot deep on the level, and the Doomsmen, after their custom, kept closely within doors.
"Oh, it does not matter," she said, and so indifferently that Constans was deceived. "But you cannot stay here," he insisted "here among the Doomsmen." "They are my father's people, and you have just told me that my uncle Hugolin does not want me." "And what does Quinton Edge desire of you?" he asked.
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