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I looked down into the vault as the men left it, and saw that Relf was there, and that they had tried every great stone in the walls in search of another chamber, but that there had not been one. And when he came up I was about to draw up the ladder after him, and looked down for the last time.
And there by the side of the spring was a little turf-built hut, hardly to be known from the shelving bank against which it leant, and to that the earl led us. "Now," he said, "tie the horses somewhere, and we will go and speak with the Wise Woman." At that Relf was not pleased, as it seemed, for he did not dismount.
"I be the oldest man in these parts 'cept David Relf, an' 'e died last year." "Why then, if he's dead, you must be the oldest," said I.
"So all that plan came out thus and it is well," I said. "But why would you not come to Penhurst at first?" She laughed lightly, answering: "Can you not guess? Relf saw, and set things right. Did he never tell you what was wrong?" "He said that it was want of travelling gear," said I. "Why, that was not it, though being thoughtful and fatherly he asked of that first."
Peter Relf from Old Honeychild is a stout feller, and one of the other men told me he'd got a character that made him blush, it was that fine and flowery. But you never know with Joanna Godden maybe she'd sooner have a looker as knew nothing, and then she could teach him. Ha! Ha!" Meanwhile Joanna sat very erect in her kitchen chair, interviewing the young chap from Botolph's Bridge.
"I am a forest-bred man," he said, "and I love all beasts," and then he turned away, and went to the men who were waiting for the earl's word. And when all was ready Relf came to me and said that he would go to his own place with his men, and that he would ask me to take word to his wife and daughter that all was safe at home.
She would have to go at least as far as Brighton ... then she remembered Martha Relf and her lodgings at Chichester "that wouldn't be bad, to go to Martha just for a start. Me leaving Ansdore for the same reason as she left it thirteen year ago ... that's queer.
So it seemed that I had found a friend, though a strange one, and I thanked the earl, and promised him as he wished, for it bound me only to what I thought would surely never come to pass. After that we went on to Relf, and rode to where we had left the men. Then the earl left us, making his way to his ships that lay at Bulverhythe, where some were in winter quarters.
"If I know aught of her kindness, and I think that I have proved it well," answered I, "she will be glad to help this orphan maiden." "Let us go and see her, and ask her to come, therefore," said Relf, rising up. "I want to thank her, moreover, for saving you." I was nowise loath, and so we went along under the trees towards the nunnery.
But I thought she was like Sexberga, and so I called her Sister Sexberga to myself, giving her a name in my thoughts. Then in the boat it slipped out unawares when I had to speak to her, and she asked to be told why I called her so." "As much like Sexberga as you are like Godwine, which is not at all," said Relf laughing. "Was she pleased?" "Why, I think not," I answered.
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