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Whilst the man spoke, Edred felt himself carried away in spite of his inner consciousness that there was a flaw in the argument of the preacher. He was intensely interested by the whole scene.
Edred saw, as the dog dragged him close to the hole, that it was a large one, though only part of it had been uncovered. He stooped to peer in, his foot slipped on the edge, and he fell right into it, the dog dragging all the time. "Stop, True; lie down, sir!" he said, and the dog paused, though the chain was still strained tight. Then Edred was glad of his bedroom candle.
Now Edwy required a strict account of all these disbursements, which Dunstan refused to give, saying it had already been given to Edred, and that no person had any right to investigate the charities of the departed king.
Edred instinctively bent the knee, but Brother Emmanuel's face did not move a muscle. "Hast thou come with a message for me from the reverend father?" he asked quietly. "Nay, not for thee.
An' the old chap.... Yes and there's one or two other things yes I reckon us'll stop on 'ere a bit." And Dickie was very glad. For now he was near Arden Castle, and could see it any time that he chose to walk a couple of hundred yards and look down. And presently he would see Edred and Elfrida. Would they know him? That was the question.
His demeanour was very strange; he bent down on one knee, took the hand of Edwy, who resigned it passively to him, kissed it and cried aloud "God save the king!" "What can you mean, Redwald?" exclaimed both the youths. "Heard you not the passing bell last night? Edred sleeps with his fathers; he died at Frome on St. Clement's day." For a moment they were both silent.
Then the other man, who belonged to Sudbury, five miles beyond us, bade us farewell, and so rode on with his tale of terror, and Edred followed me across the ford to Osgod's house, which was but a mile from where we met. He told me that Grinkel had found a fresh horse in Stoke village, and so had outstripped him.
It hath not pleased God to open to me a way of escape, wherefore I must now yield myself to the will of my enemies; and it were better to go forth and be taken by the spies without than to remain here a source of peril to those within these walls." "But there is yet another way!" cried Edred with flashing eyes.
Now if you have read a book called "The House of Arden" you will already know that Dickie's cousins were called Edred and Elfrida, and that their father, Lord Arden, had a beautiful castle by the sea, as well as a house in London, and that he and his wife were great favorites at the Court of King James the First.
Dickie asked. "Laurie Grove, New Cross," Edred told him. "Oh, that was just an address Mr. Beale made up to look grand with," said Dickie. "I remember his telling me about it. He's the man I live with; I call him father because he's been kind to me. But my own daddy's dead." "Let's go up on the downs," said Elfrida, "and sit down, and you tell us all about everything from the very beginning."
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