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Updated: May 21, 2025
Before they entered the marsh they stopped, and bound long wooden stilts to their feet; and, thus equipped, stepped without difficulty from one earth-clod to another. No horseman could have followed them across the treacherous ground.
Death, which yesterday he would have blenched to behold, now beckoned him. When he was brought in, he stood with folded arms and asked no mercy. "He is gone, my lord," said Guillem, and waited. He did not glance at the girl. "Gone?" said Charles. Then he laughed, such laughter as turned the girl cold. "Gone, earth-clod? How now?
She ran down the hill, sprang on her mule, and galloped after her lover. De Fervlans's retreat was conducted in proper order, step by step, from earth-clod to earth-clod. Suddenly Katharina discovered that a mule was an obstinate beast. The one she was riding stopped abruptly, and would not advance another step. In vain she urged and coaxed.
Billy added two wedges to those already hammered into the saw-cut, then, with the sledge, he drove them home and finished his task. The sorrowful strokes rang hollow and mournful over the land, sadder to Barron's ear than fall of earth-clod on coffin-lid.
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