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So 'twould be no great matter to surprise and burn it ere the dawn, methinks!" "Burn Garthlaxton!" cried the archer, and sprang up, scattering the arrows right and left. "Master!" stammered Roger, "master " As for Walkyn, he, having his mouth full and striving to speak, choked instead. "Lord lord!" he gasped at last, "to see Garthlaxton go up in flame O blessed sight!
Ah! since my lord Duke Beltane died, what sights these eyes have seen!" "Old man," quoth Beltane, bending near, "who art thou?" "I am the ghost that haunts this place, but, ages since, I was Sir Robert Bellesme of Garthlaxton Keep. But my wife they slew, my daughter ravished from me and my son Ah! Christ my son! They hanged him here yonder he hung, and I, his father, watched him die.
"Nay, my lord, I thank thee, but I must hence this night to Barham Broom. But for my news, 'tis this: the out-law men call Beltane, hath, by devilish arts, sacked and burned Garthlaxton Keep." "Why, this I knew; there is a lewd song already made thereon, as thus: "They gave Garthlaxton to the flame, Be glory to Duke Beltane's name, And unto lusty Giles the same, Dixit!"
And dost speak like a very archer-like fool and forsooth, a foolish archer to boot. Sure, well ye know that engines for the battery have we none " GILES. "Verily! So shall we none of Belsaye, methinks. Lacking engines, we lack for all no method, no city! Remember that, dolt Rogerkin!" ROGER. "Nay, I remember Garthlaxton aflame, the gallows aflare, and the empty dungeon.
"To death if needs be, for a man must die soon or late, yet die but once whether it be by the steel, or flame, or rope. So what matter the way of it, if I may stand with this my axe face to face with Gilles of Brandonmere, or Red Pertolepe of Garthlaxton Keep: 'twas for this I followed his foresters." "Who and whence are you?"
"Pertolepe's wolves!" he panted, "two of them have I slain within the last mile," and grinning, he patted the haft of his axe. "What news, Walkyn?" "Death!" panted Walkyn, "there be five dead men a-swing from the bartizan tower above Garthlaxton Keep, and one that dieth under the torture e'en now, for I heard grievous outcry, and all by reason of thy escape, lord."
Thou wert, as I remember thee, a very gentle, tender youth to-night are three dead without reason " "Reason, good Fool," said Beltane, "thou did'st see me borne in a prisoner to Garthlaxton; now, tell me I pray, who was she that rode with us?" "'Twas the Duchess Helen of Mortain, messire; I saw her hair, moreover "
'Twould take a week to muster enough to attempt a storm, nor have they engines for battery " "Enough!" said Beltane rising, his brows close drawn, "now hearken, and mark me well; the hole whereby one man came out may let a thousand in. Give me but an hundred men at my back and Garthlaxton shall be aflame ere dawn. So, come now, Walkyn bring me to the outlaws."
"Garthlaxton!" cried Eric, "Garthlaxton!" and thereafter all men stared on Beltane as one that is mad. "Look now," said Beltane, "Sir Pertolepe hath ridden forth with all his company to join Black Ivo's banner. Thus, within Garthlaxton his men be few; moreover I know a secret way beneath the wall. Well, is't enough? Who among ye will follow, and smite for freedom and Pentavalon?"
"So to save her from his violence, I discovered to him her name and high estate, whereupon at first he would fain have her wed with him. But, angered by her scorn, he bore her with him to Duke Ivo at Barham Broom, and me also. And there I heard her denounced as witch, by whose spells thou, lord Beltane, wert freed of thy duress and Garthlaxton utterly destroyed.
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