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A third came to anchor under a peat-stack belonging to Mr.
He had brought over some dry wood with him, as much as the basket would hold; thinking that the peat-stack was probably all afloat, and the wood-heap wetted through. All were pleased at the prospect of keeping up a fire during this strange night. All agreed that the bridge-rope must be left as it was, while the flood lasted.
He was quite right, for as they ran the few hundred yards which separated them from the burning place, it was to find that the poor fellow's house, work-shed, stock of wood, peat-stack, and out-buildings were in a blaze; even his punt, which had been brought up for its annual repair and pitching, blazing furiously.
'We've had a jolly fine take, haven't we? said Harry, sauntering up to Reggie, who was busy at the peat-stack. 'Not bad, said Reggie briefly. 'Here, take an armful of these, will you, and carry them into the house. Harry carried in the peats and set them down by the fire-place, where Marjorie was busy frying fish, while Tricksy was making bannocks at the table.
I fear I shall do it; I fear I must do it. Ten years ago come Lammas, Herluin bade light the peat-stack under me. Do you recollect?" "And so he did, the hound!" quoth Brand. "I had forgotten that." "Little Hereward never forgets foe or friend. Ever since, on Lammas night, hold still, horse! I dream of fire and flame, and of Goldenborough in the glare of it.
You will die in peace, hoping for the spring and such a spring!" Thus talking, in the course of two hours or so we arrived at the dwelling of the old laird. The Peat-Stack How dreary the old house looked as we approached it through the gathering darkness! All the light appeared to come from the snow which rested wherever it could lie on roofs and window ledges and turrets.
An old woman had presence of mind enough to maintain that the man they had seen was the shepherd. 'Why did he not stop when we called to him? said the soldier. 'He is as deaf, poor man, as a peat-stack, answered the ready-witted domestic.
Do you forget why I left Peterborough Abbey, when Winter and I turned all your priest's books upside down in the choir, and they would have flogged us, me, the Earl's son, me, the Viking's son, me, the champion, as I will be yet, and make all lands ring with the fame of my deeds, as they rung with the fame of my forefathers, before they became the slaves of monks; and how when Winter and I got hold of the kitchen spits, and up to the top of the peat-stack, and held you all at bay there, a whole abbeyful of cowards there, against two seven years' children?
Near the peat-stack they found a spade and a large stout keschie, which they appropriated, as Harry suggested it would make a handy cradle for the baby seal. They stole into the ruined and roofless apartment as Yaspard and the Harrisons had done, and listened for sounds from the prisoners; but all was quiet.
The barn was happily known to him; and he recollected that, though the greater proportion of the gable was built of stone and lime, yet that a small part towards the top, as was sometimes the case in these days, was constructed of turf, and that, should he effect an opening through the soft material, he might drop with safety upon the top of a peat-stack, and thus effect his escape to Creechope Linn, with every pass and cave of which he was intimately acquainted.
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