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Updated: June 10, 2025
And then, drawing nearer, he half whispered something further to the canon, who seemed to find the explanation satisfactory. "Why dost thou skulk and hide in this manner through the fens?" asked the canon. "And why art thou pursued?" "I personate Josceline, son of Lord De Aldithely, and so draw pursuit from him.
My dream hath it, thou seest, that Hugo shall obey me. Wherefore I said I shall know how to manage when I see the king's men." "Hath Hugo heard of this fine dream?" inquired William Lorimer with pretended gravity. "Not he. Why should he hear of it? He is as headstrong as our young lord Josceline, though not so haughty.
"It was the cousin to the king that could not do so well as that," commented Robert Sadler. "And how knowest thou that?" asked Josceline, complacently. "Didst thou see him?" "See him!" exclaimed Robert Sadler. "I have seen him more times than thou art years old. And never did he do so well as thou and Hugo."
"I did dream of eagles," he muttered, "and they did scream above our heads." He listened, and from what he heard he learned that Hugo had not revealed himself as Hugo, but that he allowed the spy to think him to be Josceline. "Well did my lady trust in him!" exulted Humphrey.
"I had speech later with the bailiff, and he did say that the priest was a Saxon serving-man, and the novice was the young lord, Josceline De Aldithely, escaping to his father." "After them! after them!" cried the innkeeper, furiously. "They be a prize!" In the hurly-burly and din that now arose old Bartlemy slipped out to the stables, got possession of his mule, and rode off unnoticed.
"Willingly!" cried Hugo, who did not even now betray the secret that he was not Josceline, not knowing what might come of it. And he threw off hood, cloak, and robe while Humphrey looked from the captain to the boy and back again. But without a word to the faithful serving-man, the captain gave the command to the troop, and immediately all were in swift motion.
Hugo looked over his shoulder, and his face was pale. But there was no regret in his heart for the attempt he had made to save Josceline, even though the king's dungeon seemed now to open before him. He said nothing, and a moment later the men-at-arms swept up and surrounded them, their leader saluting Hugo, much to the boy's surprise.
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