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Updated: June 24, 2025
Some change was made as soon as you had left; for, two days later, meeting William of London in the presence of the king, I told him that I had inquired further into the matter, and had found that you were by no means the aggressor in the quarrel with young Fitz-Urse, for that he had fingered his dagger, and would doubtless have drawn it had there not been many bystanders.
It is too late to draw back now!" one of the men cried. The others, who had recoiled a moment when Wulf sprang up, rushed at him just as he cut down the man he had first engaged. "Cut them down and fly!" the one who had before given orders exclaimed, lunging furiously at Wulf. "Easier said than done, Walter Fitz-Urse!" Wulf exclaimed, as he parried a blow and dealt one in return.
Doubtless some of the royal servants sleep on the other side of the door. No, if any design be attempted against his life it will be when he is travelling, or when he is abroad amid a crowd." "I saw Walter Fitz-Urse to-day, master, in the train of William of London."
In the second place, as Fitz-Urse had been sent away, it would create an animosity against you on the part of his countrymen at court were you to reappear at once; and lastly, that I considered it would be to your benefit to pass at least some months on your estates, learning your duties as thane, and making the acquaintance of your people. Therefore, I wished you to continue at Steyning.
The five soldiers were then told that they would not be required until morning. Wulf went out to the gate, and learnt from Ulf that he had seen no one enter whom he took for Fitz-Urse. "He may have gone in by some other entrance, my lord," he said, "for there are three or four ways into the palace." "We shall be on watch inside, Ulf. You need stay no longer. Be here in the morning at seven."
In one or other of the disguises Wulf had suggested, the boy had hung about the gate of the bishop's palace until late in the evening, but Walter Fitz-Urse had not come out after dark. On the day before starting, Wulf was with Osgod when the latter met the boy at the rendezvous. After he heard Ulf's report Wulf said: "As we leave to-morrow this is the last report you will have to make to us.
Even at the main entrance I cannot tell but that, beneath the cowl and frock of one of the many monks who pass in and out, Walter Fitz-Urse may not be hidden.
"Yes, my lord; first, to thank you for your kindness, and to say that I will carry out your instructions; secondly, to tell you that Ulred the smith saw Walter Fitz-Urse handle his dagger, and was standing ready to knock it from his hand did he draw it.
The court was a more formal one than usual, the king's Norman functionaries were all present as were several ecclesiastics. Among them the Bishop of London, behind whom stood Wulf's old adversary, Walter Fitz-Urse. Earl Harold introduced his companions in captivity, the king receiving them very graciously. "I am glad to see that you have all returned safely," he said.
After again commending the boy, Wulf returned to the palace with Osgod. "I feel half ashamed of having entertained a suspicion of Fitz-Urse on such slight grounds, Osgod." "I think you have done quite right, my lord. You know how the fellow gave a false report to the bishop of that quarrel with you. At any rate, should nothing come of it, no harm will have been done.
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