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Shouts and yells were filling the air, the voices being those of Mortimer's following. "A Lollard, a Lollard! A heretic! Down with him! Away with him! To the fire with him! A Lollard, a Lollard!" A deep flush overspread Edred's face. He made a spring forward; but Warbel laid a detaining hand upon his arm. "It is no case for us to interfere in," he said, with clouded brow.
Edred's father and Mrs. Honeysett agreed that Edred had done it in the delirium of a fever, brought on by his anxiety about his friend and playmate. People do, you know, do odd things in fevers that they would never do at other times. The redheaded man and the woman were tried at the assizes and punished.
As for Queenhithe it is still more ancient than Billingsgate. Its earliest name was Edred Hithe, that is, Edred's wharf. It was given by King Stephen to the Convent of the Holy Trinity. It returned, however, to the Crown, and was given by King Henry III. to the Queen Eleanor, whence it was called the Queen's Bank or Queenhithe.
But theirs is not the way; God who dwelleth in the heavens will soon show them that. Theirs is not the way!" But time there was none now for one of those conversations in which Edred's heart delighted.
Nobody will suspect now that we have had a hand in the hiding of the good brother. But let us make all haste, for no man knows when the bloodhounds may be upon us to strive to take him away." Edred's face was very pale, but steady and resolved. He understood, better perhaps than his younger brother, the peril of the enterprise upon which they had embarked.
Edred flushed crimson, and a shudder ran through the company. "Don't turn that horrible color," whispered a white toreador who was close to him. "This is the white world. No crimson allowed." Elfrida caught Edred's hand. "Edred is quite as brave as me," she said. "He'll go. Won't you?" "Of course I will," said Edred impatiently.
Some such thoughts in a more chaotic form surged through Edred's head as he stood listening, almost causing him to lose the words of the preacher, though the tenor of his discourse was plain.
It was growing towards the westering of the sun when they beheld the great sea lying before them far below, and Edred's eyes glowed with joy as he saw the white-winged shallops flitting hither and thither on the wide expanse of blue water, and pictured how soon Brother Emmanuel would be sailing away out of the reach of peril. Truly God had been very good in hearing and answering prayer.
"This carving be something deep and ponderous. I always suspect traps when I see such pains bestowed upon it. Let me examine a while further. These grapes look to me as if they had been fingered something often. Let me examine further." Edred's heart was in his mouth.
The sun was just setting as the boat bearing Brother Emmanuel to the sloop pushed off from shore. The skipper resolved to set sail forthwith, and the boys stood watching whilst she shook out her canvas to the favouring breeze, and glided like a white-winged sea bird out from the shelter of the bay and into the wide ocean. There were smarting tears in Edred's eyes despite his joy and relief.
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