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Updated: September 13, 2025
'Ha, sire, said Saint-Pol with meaning, 'he will tell you many things, some good, and some not so good. 'Be sure he will, said Richard. 'That is Bertran's way. He would trust no one with his present reflections, and seek no outside strength against his present temptations.
He, the king of men, was the bond; she, the cast-off minion, she, this Jehane Saint-Pol, was the free. So God, making war upon the great, rights the balances of this world. But he was extraordinarily gentle with her; he gripped himself and throttled the animal close. Gaining grace as he went, his heart throve upon its own blood. Balm was shed on his burning face, he sucked peace as it fell.
The Archduke was scratching in his beard; and the chorus of flies swelled and shrilled. The Marquess needed alliances. 'Eh, my friends, he said, almost praying, 'will this not serve me? Said Saint-Pol, 'Marquess, listen to this man. Speak, Gilles. Gilles looked up. 'I have tried to kill him. I had my chance fair. I could not do it. I shall try again, for the law is on my side.
I was to go out of the ways of men unnoticed and unmourned; as a rebel, under the obscure name of another and bearing another's sins upon my shoulders, I was to pass almost unheeded to the gallows. Bardelys the Magnificent the Marquis Marcel Saint-Pol de Bardelys, whose splendour had been a byword in France was to go out like a guttering candle.
'He will think the job a light one, and we shall nip him in the hills. The Bishop of Beauvais lent a hand, so did Adhémar Viscount of Limoges, and Achard the lord of Chaluz, not because he desired, but because he was forced by Limoges his suzerain. Another forced labourer was Sir Gilles de Gurdun, who had been found by Saint-Pol doing work in Poictou and won over after a few trials.
Eustace, you shall kiss her before I go. Saint-Pol got up and went to her. Brother and sister kissed each other above the King's head. Then said Richard, 'Now I will tell you that I had nothing to do with the death of your cousin Montferrat. 'Oh, sire! oh, sire! cried Saint-Pol; but Jehane looked at her brother. 'I had to do with that, Eustace, she said.
It will be a strange thing' he laughed, not pleasantly 'a strange thing, I say, if you cannot bend that arbiter to your own way of thinking. Richard looked at him coldly. 'If I could do that, my friend, he said, 'I should not suffer arbitration at all. 'The proposition was not mine, my lord, urged Saint-Pol. 'It could not be, sir, Richard said sharply.
What it was contented him he knew not altogether, though a letter from Saint-Pol had in part advised him; but he was sure he had wherewithal to discontent him. 'Foh! a juicy orange indeed, he said to himself, 'but I can wring him dry. If Richard hugged one thought, Bertran hugged another, and took it to bed with him o' nights.
Upon being asked my name and place of abode, I created some commotion by answering boldly "I am the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys, of Bardelys in Picardy." The President that is to say, the Keeper of the Seals turned inquiringly to Chatellerault. The Count, however, did no more than smile and point to something written on a paper that lay spread upon the table.
The tears came freely, from more eyes than hers. Richard's head dropped back, and for a full minute they thought him gone. But no. He opened his eyes again and moved his lips. They strained to hear him. 'The sponge, the sponge, he said: then, 'Bring me in Saint-Pol. The cold light began to steal in through the crannies of the tent. The young man was brought in by Des Barres, in chains.
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