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And then the pair went away together, and did not pause until they had reached their own room, when they suddenly seized each other by the hand and commenced cutting extraordinary capers, indicative of a secret understanding and triumph. "It could not have turned out better," said Edred, speaking stiffly with his bandaged face and swollen lips. "I fear me thou dost suffer somewhat."
Only we've got a charm because in our time Edred is Lord Arden, and there's a white mole who helps us, and we can go anywhere in history we like." "Not quite," said Edred. "No; but there are chests of different clothes, and whatever clothes we put on we come to that time in history. I know it sounds like silly untruths," she added rather sadly, "and I knew you wouldn't believe it, but it is true.
"We got my magic all right, and old nurse said I could work it for you, and that's really what I've come for, so that we can look for the treasure together." "That's awfully jolly of you," said Elfrida. "What is your magic?" Edred asked; and Dickie pulled out Tinkler and the white seal and the moon-seeds, and laid them on the turf and explained.
He passed out of the chantry muttering to himself, and Edred prostrated himself before the altar, above which the solitary lamp burned clear and bright, and offered up most earnest prayers for the safety of Brother Emmanuel, for the failure and discomfiture of his foes, and for his safe escape when the time was ripe into some country where his enemies were not like to find him.
It was long before the monk spoke, and meantime Edred lay prostrate at his feet, thankful to transfer the burden weighing him down to the keeping of another, but little guessing what the burden was to him to whom he made this confession.
A keen wind rushed through it, and by the blown candle's light he could see snowflakes whirled into the house through the window's dark, star-studded square. There was whispering going on. He heard her words, "Here. So! Jump." And then a little figure Edred it must be; no, Elfrida climbed up on to the window-ledge. And jumped out. Out of the third-floor window undoubtedly jumped.
There we are rounding the point, and beyond there are no more cliffs; doubtless it is in this bay that the Shipmaster Edred thinks to anchor." At that moment their conversation was cut short by a tremendous gust of wind rushing down the sloping hill into the bay striking them with such terrible force that the ship heeled over until the water rushed above the bulwark.
Edred asked in anxious tones, and she nodded distractedly. "Great Mouldiestwarp, on you we call To do the greatest magic of all; To show us how we are to find Dear Dickie who is lame and kind. Do this for us, and on our hearts we swore We'll never ask you for anything more." "I don't see that it's so much better than mine," said Edred, "and it ought to be swear, not swore." "I don't think it is.
Thus their cries anticipated the decision of the Witan, and without all was noise and clamour; while within the sacred fane the ashes of him who had so lately ruled England rested in peace by the side of his royal father Edward, the son of Alfred, three of whose sons Athelstane, Edmund, Edred had now reigned in succession. It must not be supposed that Edwy was as yet king by the law of the land.
"Sacrilege! is a churchman's blood redder than that of layman, and is he not doomed as a traitor by a judgment as righteous as ever English law pronounced! did he not keep Edwy from his throne during the lifetime of the usurper Edred!" "That was the sentence of the Witan, and you served Edred."
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