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But the course was much slower than that of the day before, and that had been slow enough. Night came and the fagged party in disappointment once more lay down. "Thou hast done well, Herebald," said Bernulf. "To-night it is my turn. But think ye not it were better now to lead straight on to Yarmouth?" "Yea," answered Herebald.
"And yonder be Yarmouth," said Herebald, cheerfully. "We come to it surely by set of sun." There was no more marks of passage before them, and Richard Wood, picking his own path, travelled more easily than he had before, and had also to help him an enlarged appreciation of his own powers, to which he speedily added a large increase of hope that now the end of his troubles had come.
"We lodge not here. I do know a cheaper place; and we be not Normans that we have money to waste." Richard Wood frowned. "Speak not against the Normans," he said. "The king is a Norman." "Oh, ay," answered Bernulf, indifferently. And then he added with determination in his tone, "We lodge not here." Herebald now drew Richard Wood aside.
"Yea, verily," cried Richard Wood. "It had not before entered my mind. Thinkest thou they have gone thither?" Herebald frowned. "Thou art too ready with thy questions," he growled. "But this I will say, we go thither." "Then we go with thee," said Richard Wood, firmly. "The way is open to us as well as to thee, and thou mayest not gainsay it." "Oh, ay," returned Herebald, indifferently.
"And it is a small thing to do for a kinsman also moreover." "And now go we ashore," said Bernulf. "To-morrow morn we aid the king's spy to search the town. He will have a merry run up and down the Rows, he and his men." And, with a hearty farewell to the skipper, Herebald and Bernulf climbed down the side of the vessel to their little boat gently rocking alongside.
"They have not good wit, or they would not be so led by us when we be strangers," observed Herebald. "It is ever thus with knaves," said Bernulf. "Though they seem sharp, there is a place where they be dull, and an honest man can often find it, and so outwit them." Then they turned back to Richard Wood and his companions. "Go ye slowly and softly," growled Herebald.
Upon hearing this all three of the weary men-at-arms clamored for places in the boat which Herebald, after a conference with Bernulf, promised them. "Hearest thou not, Herebald," said Bernulf, "that the king's man feareth the water?
But where dost thou begin? And how wilt thou go about it?" "Why, why," stammered Richard Wood, "I did never search a town before, and that is but the truth." "Were it not best to proceed boldly?" asked Herebald, slyly. "Boldly, sayest thou? And what meanest thou by boldly?" "Why, by boldly, I mean boldly. Surely thou knowest what boldly is?
All that day Richard Wood kept a sharp eye on his new acquaintances. "Watch them narrowly," he said to his men. "They will seek to make this catch without us and so obtain the reward. Therefore all that ye see them do, do ye likewise, and I will also do the same." Herebald and Bernulf saw and understood, and laughed together unseen.
We must find the ship that is loaded and ready to weigh anchor to-morrow toward noon when the wind and tide will serve. And we must bespeak the help of the captain to get these knaves aboard." "True, Bernulf," responded Herebald. "Thou hast a wit that would match with the canon's."
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