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Amongst his retainers was Kinmont Willie, and as Willie rode from the Wardens' meeting, along the banks of the Liddel, in company with only three or four men, a body of two hundred English horsemen, commanded by Salkeld, Warden of the Eastern March, marked him from across the water. Truce or no truce, the chance seemed to them one that was too good to lose.
"But the lesson you gave me was worth bay Salkeld," for so I had named my horse, after a great English house on the Border who dwell at the Castle of Corby. "I will do thee a good turn," he said. "You crave to see this Puzel, ere they put on her the high witch's cap for her hellward journey."
"Part of the bargain, if I remember your first mention of it, Senor, was that you should carry me to the West Indies." "You are right in that," said he. "Are we approaching the West Indies?" "The West Indies is a wide term, Master Salkeld. We are certainly not approaching the West India islands.
When I had got to the period which we spent on board the Santa Filomena, my companions in distress bared their shoulders and backs, and showed him the scars and the wounds and the stripes which we had received. Then his face grew stern and set and the English sailors that stood by groaned in their wrath and indignation. "I am beholden to you, Master Salkeld," he said, when I had done.
As the head of the assaulting column moved forward a little party started at the double toward the Cashmere gate. The party consisted of Lieutenants Home and Salkeld, of the Royal Engineers, and Sergeants Smith and Carmichael, and Corporal Burgess, of the same corps; Bugler Hawthorne of the Fifty-second regiment; and twenty-four native sappers and miners under Havildars Mahor and Tilluh Sing.
My father, Richard Salkeld was the youngest son of Oliver Salkeld, lord-of-the-manor of Beechcot-on-the-Wold, and he practiced in York as an attorney. Whether he did well or ill in this calling I know not, for at the early age of six years I was left an orphan.
"A day and a night. One additional mouth, Master Salkeld, is what I did not bargain for." "But you would not have allowed the man to drift away to starvation and death?" I said. "His life was no concern of mine, Master Salkeld. But I can make him useful; therefore he was worth saving. I shall enroll him as one of my crew, and carry him to the Indies." "And then?"
"These red Deepings are all alike," said the duke carelessly. "Oh? He's a red Deeping, is he? Who's his father?" said Lady Salkeld almost briskly. "It's a secret," said the duke with perfect truthfulness, for he did not know. Lady Salkeld looked at him, sniffed, and said with some tartness: "Well, I never expected you to be mysterious, Osterley."
One was that of Captain Manuel Nunez, the other the black-robed form of Frey Bartolomeo. They stood regarding me steadfastly: the monk calm and quiet, the sailor with his usual cold smile faintly curling about the eyes and mouth. "So, Master Salkeld," said Nunez, "we meet again. You are doubtless on your way home to England to take vengeance on your cousin, Master Stapleton."
Our Holy Office is merciful, Master Salkeld, yea, sadly too merciful for my liking. But there are those of us, who know not any mercy for Englishmen and heretics, as you shall find ere long, both of you." With that he vanished in the crowd, and presently Pharaoh and I were led back to prison, wondering what his last words meant.
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