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Robert of Herepol, it would appear from the chronicle, did not much care whether they were spies or not. So the men went to and fro, and often sat with Hereward. But he forbade them sternly to mention Torfrida's name. Alftruda sent to him meanwhile, again and again, messages of passionate love and sorrow, and he listened to them as sullenly as he did to his two servants, and sent no answer back.
If there were a dozen knights left of all those whom he used to heap with wealth and honor, worthy the name of knights, they would catch us between here and Stratford, and make a free man of their lord." So spake or words to that effect, according to the Latin chronicler, who must have got them from Leofric himself the good knight of Herepol.
He could not even think, till he heard the key turned on him in a room not a small or doleful one in Bedford keep, and found an iron shackle on his leg, fastened to the stone bench on which he sat. Robert of Herepol had meant to leave his prisoner loose. But there were those in Gilbert's train who told him, and with truth, that if he did so, no man's life would be safe.
The jailer said that many men might have gone to see him, so easy was Sir Robert to him. But he would have no man; and none dare enter save Sir Robert and he, for fear of their lives. But he would ask him of Herepol. The good knight of Herepol said, "Let the rogues go in; they may amuse the poor man." So they went in, and as soon as they went, he knew them.
He was to be in the custody of Robert of Herepol, Chatelain of Bedford, who, Hereward knew, was a reasonable and courteous man. The king had asked him, Gilbert, to take charge of Hereward. "And what said you?" "That I had rather have in my pocket the seven devils that came out of St. Mary Magdalene; and that I would not have thee within ten miles of Lincoln town, to be Earl of all the Danelagh.
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