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Updated: May 18, 2025
And now, above the sudden din, hoarse and loud a battle-cry arose, at the sound of which Sir Gui's jaws hung agape, and he stood as one that doubts his ears; for 'twas a cry he had heard aforetime, long ago. "Arise! Arise! I will arise!" Then Beltane cast up the bar, and, plucking wide the door, beheld the broad, mail-clad back of one who held the narrow stair where flashed pike and gisarm.
"Six!" he cried, "six in seven shots: 'tis sweet archery methinks, and quicker than a noose, my Rogerkin, and more deadly than thy axe, my surly Walkyn. Let the rogues yonder but show themselves, and give me arrows enow, so will I slay all Gui's garrison ere the moon fail me quite."
Thus spake Friar Martin, shivering in his bonds, what time the crowd rocked and swayed, sobbing aloud and groaning; whereat Sir Gui's pikemen made lusty play with their spear-shafts. Then spake Beltane, whispering, to Roger, who, sweating with impatience, groaned and stared and gnawed upon his fingers: "Away, Roger!"
Howbeit, the father and lover being denounced before Sir Gui's tribunal, they were forthwith hanged upon my lord Gui's new gibbets " "O hanged?" quoth Beltane "hanged?" "Aye, forsooth, by the neck as is the fashion. Now cometh this woeful wench to me vowing she heard their voices i' the night, and, to quiet these voices besought of me a pardon.
And turning his back on the littered market square, Giles shivered and leaned him upon his sword as one that is sick. "Nay," said Black Roger, "Gui's black knaves being rent in pieces, Giles, we shall be saved the hanging of them ha! there sounds my lord's horn, and 'tis the rallying-note come away, Giles!"
Indeed, the citizens of Belsaye had beheld sights many and dire of late, wherefore now they blenched before this stark and grisly thing and looked askance; but to these country folk such things were something newer, wherefore they pushed and strove amid the press that they might view it nearer in especial two in miller's hooded smocks, tall and lusty fellows these, who by dint of shoulder and elbow, won forward until they were stayed by the file of Sir Gui's heavy-armed pikemen.
Then summoned he Eric of the wry neck, together with Giles who came forthwith, being yet bedight in Sir Gui's harness. "Eric, I have marked thee well; methinks thou art one long bred to arms and learned in war?" "My lord Beltane, in other days I was the Duke thy father's High Constable of all the coast-wise towns." "Ha say'st thou so in sooth? Then now do I make thee lord Constable of Belsaye.
So doth fair Belsaye shout to all men she is free at last and clean of Gui and all his roguish garrison " "Clean?" quoth Giles. "Clean, forsooth? Roger O Roger man, I have seen men die in many and diver ungentle ways ere now, but these men these men of Gui's, look look yonder! O sweet heaven keep me ever from the tearing hands of vengeful mothers and women wronged!"
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