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He needed for his policy a Scottish king, strong enough to maintain himself against his subjects, and loyal enough to remain true to the English connexion. Any faint chance of Balliol occupying such a position was completely destroyed by his studied humiliation. Henceforward the King of Scots, who had fought so well at Dupplin and Halidon, was but a pawn in Edward's game.
The queen was kept in close confinement during the rest of her life, and the morning papers of that time contained nothing of a social nature regarding her doings. The Scots, under David Bruce, were defeated at Halidon Hill in 1333, and Bruce fled to France. Thus again under a vassal of the English king, Edward Baliol by name, the Scotch crooked the reluctant hinges of the knee.
The victory of Halidon added greatly to the popularity of Edward III, for the English looked upon the shame of Bannockburn as avenged, and they sang: "Scots out of Berwick and out of Aberdeen, At the Burn of Bannock, ye were far too keen, Many guiltless men ye slew, as was clearly seen. King Edward has avenged it now, and fully too, I ween, He has avenged it well, I ween. Well worth the while!
He saw my look of enquiry, and added with a shy, poignant laugh how I hear it still! : "I don't mean only the job in hand, though that's enough in itself; but Paul's work you understand. Halidon went to the Mananas, and for two years the journals brought me incidental reports of the work he was accomplishing.
"You think I've had time enough that I ought to have put the thing through before this? I suppose you're right; I can see that even Ned Halidon thinks so; and he has always understood my difficulties better than you have." This insinuation exasperated me. "Ned would have put it through years ago!" I broke out. Paul pulled at his straggling moustache. "You mean he has more executive capacity?
"For every thousand dollars he talks of spending on his work, I believe he knocks off a cigar, or buys one less newspaper," Halidon grumbled affectionately; "but after all," he went on, with one of the quick revivals of optimism that gave a perpetual freshness to his spirit, "after all, it makes one admire him all the more when one sees such a nature condemned to be at war with the petty inherited instinct of greed."
But when the news came he would own neither to surprise nor to disappointment. "Goodbye, poor Academy!" I exclaimed, tossing over the bridegroom's eight-page rhapsody to Halidon, who had received its duplicate by the same post. "Now, why the deuce do you say that?" he growled. "I never saw such a beast as you are for imputing mean motives."
Halidon, who had picked up another job in the Orient, wrote me an elegiac letter on Paul's death, ending with "And what about the Academy?" and for all answer I sent him a newspaper clipping recording the terms of the will, and another announcing the sale of the house and Mrs. Ambrose's departure for Europe.
The Scots now made an eruption across the frontier as a retaliation for Edward's having permitted Baliol to gather a force here for his war against Bruce. King Edward was on the point of starting for Ireland, and he at once hastened north. He defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill, captured Berwick, and placed Baliol upon the throne.
IN the good days, just after we all left college, Ned Halidon and I used to listen, laughing and smoking, while Paul Ambrose set forth his plans.
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