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I have been thinking, as I came wandering along, that this Master Spikeman, who keeps mistress Eveline as a sort of prisoner on parole, has an object in getting me out of his way, so as better to carry on his wicked plans. My jealous pate at first could think only of thee; but now I begin to fancy he may have designs upon pretty mistress Eveline as well as upon thyself.
"`We met in secret, and the hour Which led me to my lady's bower Was fiery expectation's dower; The days and nights were nothing all Except the hour which doth recall, In the long lapse from youth to age, No other like itself. "Do you observe the extreme beauty of that passage?" said Spikeman. "Yes," said Joey, "it is very beautiful."
The Indian made a gesture of assent, and the Assistant preceding him, the two went in the direction of the room where were Arundel and Eveline. Prudence, when she left Spikeman and Waqua together, had rushed in upon the lovers to apprise them of the Assistant's presence.
Hereupon followed a discussion of some length, which terminated favorably to the opinions of the Deputy Governor and of the Assistant Spikeman, and it was finally agreed that Joy should be found guilty, generally, and condemned to be confined for the space of one month, in irons, to a fine of £5, and to banishment from the colony.
"An' thou couldest, it were a good deed, and heaven will reward thee therefor." "I will look to thee, instead of heaven, for my reward," said the soldier. "Meanwhile do thou have thine eyes like those in a peacock's tail, all around thee, for this Master Spikeman is cunninger than all the foxes whose tails Samson tied together." "Trust me, Philip, and be thou discreet.
The door was opened by one of the daughters of the house, who, on seeing him, cried out, "Dear me, Mr Spikeman, is this you? Why, where have you been all this while?" "About the country for orders, Miss Amelia," replied Spikeman; "business must be attended to."
"Madam," replied the Assistant, "it behooves you to be careful of your language. Ephraim," he added, turning to his companion, "do thou inquire without, whether the Knight be taken. He may have leaped from the window." Upon Ephraim's departure, Spikeman again addressed the lady. "Madam," he said, "I know that the work wherein I am engaged is ungracious.
Out upon this false Knight, for his pretended love of retirement; upon his leman, this lady Geraldine, forsooth; and this squire of dames, Master Miles Arundel, whose counterfeited affection for my ward may be only another cloak for most pernicious plots." "Thou art becoming suspicious of all the world. Master Spikeman," said Winthrop, smiling.
"I am afraid that is but too true, my dear boy," said Spikeman, laying down the book; "Shakespeare has most truly said, `The course of true love never did run smooth. Nay, he cannot be said to be original in that idea, for Horace and most of the Greek and Latin poets have said much the same thing before him; however, let us go on again
Our hero considered that he could not do better than follow the advice of Spikeman. He first wrote a few lines to Mary, requesting that she would send her answer to Dudstone; and then, having settled with the hostess, he set off with his knife-grinder's wheel on his return home to what were now his apartments.
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