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Updated: May 25, 2025
The wine was entirely gone, and the salted provision, which alone remained, made the misery of thirst almost unbearable. On the cushions, richly embroidered in dainty Eastern colouring, lay Mabel de Hundberg, with dry lips half opened and panting, too weary to move, yet listening all intent.
The Arab shout of victory they knew only too well, and it was to be the signal of flight towards Tiberias; but if success was with the assailants, the war-cry 'Deus vult, and 'St. Hubert for Hundberg, were to be followed by the hymn of victory as the token that it was safe to descend.
"Is this indeed so?" asked Fulk. "A good lineage, even if English!" "But rebel," muttered Courtwood. "It is so, Sir King," said Sigbert. "My father was disseised of the lands of Hundberg, and died in the fens fighting under Hereward le Wake.
Some years previously, Sir William de Hundberg, a Norman knight, had been expelled from his English castle by the partisans of Stephen, and with wife and children had followed Count Fulk of Anjou to his kingdom of Palestine, and had been endowed by him with one of the fortresses which guarded the passes of Galilee, under that exaggeration of the feudal system which prevailed in the crusading kingdom of Jerusalem.
In a brief half-hour more, young Walter de Hundberg, with his sister by his side, was kneeling before an alert, slender, wiry figure in plain chamois leather, with a worn sunburnt face and keen blue eyes Fulk of Anjou who had resigned his French county to lead the crusading cause in Palestine. "Stand up, fair youth, and tell thy tale, and how thou hast forestalled our succour."
"So, thou art true heir of Hundberg, if that be the name of thine English castle?" "Ay, sir, save for the Norman! But I would not, if I could, meddle with thee, my young lord, though thou dost look at me askance, spite of having learnt of me to ride and use thy lance.
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