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The door in the partition was flung wide, and the young officer appeared with men at his back. "Have you found an ambush, Sieur Charles?" "We have here a listener, Edelwald," replied La Tour, "and there may be more in the loft above." Several men sprang up the bunks and moved some puncheons overhead. A light was raised under the dark roof canopy, but nothing rewarded its search.
John and deal with its rebellious garrison as seemed to him fit, for which destruction of rebels his sovereign would have him in loving remembrance. During all this delay Edelwald stood with his beautiful head erect above the noose, and his self-repressed gaze still following Marie. The wives of other soldiers were wailing for their husbands. But he must die without wife, without love.
"I see what you would do," said Marie, "and I tell you it is useless. You would frighten me with D'Aulnay into allowing you, our only officer, and these men, our only soldiers, to ransom this fort with your lives. It comes to that. We might hold out a few more days and end by being at his mercy." "Let the men themselves be spoken to," entreated Edelwald.
Then after Edelwald succéeded Aldulfe the son of Edelhere in gouernment of that kingdome, and reigned 25 yeares.
The soldier saw his escape was cut off, and desperately casting back his monk's hood, he shouted upwards, "La Tour! La Tour! Put down the ladder it is Edelwald!" At that name, down came a ladder as if shot from a catapult. Edelwald sprung up the rounds and both of D'Aulnay's officers seized him. He had drawn one of his long pistols and he clubbed it on their heads so that they staggered back.
"How fares Shubenacadie?" he inquired over the claw she presented to him. "Shubenacadie's feathers are curdled. He hath greatly soured. Confess me and give me thy benediction, Father Edelwald for I have sinned." "Not since I took these orders, I hope," said Edelwald. "As a Capuchin I am only an hour old."
Antonia was too intent on Van Corlaer and his fell determination to turn her mind upon Edelwald. She had, indeed, seen very little of La Tour's second in command, for he had been away with La Tour on expeditions much of the time she had spent in Acadia. Edelwald was the only man of the fortress called by his baptismal name, yet it was spoken with respect and deference like a title.
But the discomforts and perils of this siege have scarce left me any. We are walled together here like sheep." "It is trying, your ladyship, but if we succeed in keeping the butcher out we may do better presently." Marie sent her woman for writing tools, and was busy with them when Edelwald returned in his ordinary rich dark dress.
Again she saw two graves and a long trench made in the frontier graveyard for Marie and her officer Edelwald and her twenty-three soldiers, all in line with her child. Once more Antonia saw the household turn from that spot weeping aloud; and De Charnisay's ships already sailing away with the spoil of the fort to Penobscot; and his sentinels looking down from the walls of St. John.
She was certain to rejoin the household somewhere, and who could blame her for avoiding the capitulation if she found it possible? The little Nightingale could not endure pain. Edelwald drew the garrison up in line and the gates were opened. D'Aulnay entered the fort with his small army. He was splendidly dressed, and such pieces of armor as he wore dazzled the eye.
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