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And this is what she said: "If I must tell you then;'tis now two weeks and more since Sir Francis Falconnet asked me to marry him. I I hope you do feel better, Captain Ireton." And with these bitterest of all words to her leave-taking, she left me to endure as best I might the hell of torment they had lighted for me.
'Bad enough, he answered, 'unless you can make the more speed there! then making obeisance to Berenger he continued his report, saying that Captain Falconnet was sending him to M. le Duc with information that the Guisards were astir, and that five hundred gens d'armes, under the black Nid de Merle, as it was said, were on their way intending to surprise Pont de Dronne, and thus cut the King of Navarre off from Guyenne and his kingdom beyond it.
Since the Cherokees had left their dead and wounded, and Falconnet the body of his trooper who had yielded me the musket, there was small doubt they would return. Yet we had time to dig a shallow grave for my old henchman; to dig and fill it up again; and afterward to make a circuit round the burning pile to reach the river side once more.
"When Lauswoulter slipped and I might have spitted him, and didn't, Falconnet was for having us make the duel
I had chanced to run afoul of that captain of Hessian pigs, Lauswoulter, at cards, and Falconnet stood my friend though now I bethink me, he did seem over-anxious that one or the other of us should be killed." "As how?" I inquired.
Falconnet must have half a hundred men, red and white, in the powder train; and by this time he has learned from the Indian who reconnoitered us on the mountain that we are within striking distance. With the enemy forewarned, as he is, we might as well try to cut the women out of my Lord Cornwallis's headquarters."
"Aye," said I; "I do remember; 'twas in a duel with one Francis Falconnet. He said he would make you his " Now the soft palm was laid on my lips, and I kissed it till she snatched it away. "Ma foi!" she cried; "I think you are in a hopeful way to recover now, Captain Ireton. I do protest I shall go and send old Anthony to sit with you."
She is no more than a name to me, I do assure you; the daughter of the man who sits in my father's seat at Appleby Hundred." "But you are going to fight for her!" he retorted. "Am I? I pledge you my word I did not know it. But in any case I should fight Sir Francis Falconnet; aye, and do my best to kill him, too. Sit you down and fill another pipe. Whatever the quarrel, it is mine."
But tell me another thing; was it not yesterday that I met Sir Francis Falconnet under the oaks in the wood field and got this pair of redhot pincers in my shoulder?" She turned away, and if I ever saw a tear there was one trembling in her eyelashes. "'Twas three full weeks ago," she said. "And it was not in the wood field 'twas in the wine cellar.
But Captain Falconnet and Colonel Tarleton did their earnest best to make a rebel of me out of hand." "Ah? But the proof of all this, Captain Ireton." "The best I can offer is the present fact of my coming to place myself at your Lordship's disposal, being moved thereto by your Lordship's own desire expressed in an order sent some weeks since to Sir Francis Falconnet."
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