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He raised his head, which had been resting on his hand during the address of the Sub-Prior, and the reply of the Hermano, and looked at the new witness with bewildered astonishment.
"Remove the prisoner," said the Sub-Prior to Christie; "look to him carefully that he escape not; but for thy life do him no injury." His commands being obeyed, Edward and the monk were left alone, when the Sub-Prior thus addressed him: "What hath come over thee, Edward, that thy eye kindles so wildly, and thy cheek is thus changing from scarlet to pale?
The look and sign of warning which the Sub-Prior gave to Halbert Glendinning as they parted, went to his heart; for although he had profited much less than Edward by the good man's instructions, he had a sincere reverence for his person; and even the short time he had for deliberation tended to show him he was embarked in a perilous adventure.
"So please your reverence and lordship," answered the Northumbrian knight, "I do partly, that is, in some sort, subscribe to what your wisdom hath delivered Nevertheless, under reverence of the Sub-Prior, we do not look for gallant leaders and national deliverers in the hovels of the mean common people.
The authoritative voice of the Sub-Prior commanding silence was next heard; upon which Mary Avenel, whose tone of feeling did not lead her to enter into counsel or society with the rest of the party, again retired to her solitary chamber.
"And I," answered the Sub-Prior, in the same tone of determination, "say that I will break your journey, come what may!" "Who shall gainsay me," said the knight, "if I make my way by force?" "You will judge wisely to think ere you make such an attempt," answered the monk, with composure; "there are men enough in the Halidome to vindicate its rights over those who dare infringe them."
"And when shall we set forth, father?" said the youth, as eagerly as if the journey which he was now undertaking led to the pleasures of a summer holiday. "Even now, if thou wilt," said the Sub-Prior, yielding to his impetuosity "go, then, and command them to prepare for our departure.
He sat motionless, with a calm, acquired silence, which might have meant much or nothing. "Did he come often?" inquired the Englishman. "Very often." "I never saw him." This, again, was met with silence. Presently the sub-prior continued his narrative. "When daylight came at last," he said, "the shadow had left your lips.
Thou treacherous villain! and on thy evidence evidence so honorably, so truthfully obtained, my life or death depends! Well, be it so." "But so it shall not be," interposed the King himself, ere either Sub-Prior or the Hermano could reply; "even as the prisoner, we ourselves hold evidence dishonestly obtained of little moment nay, of no weight whatever.
I had no stomach complaints then, which now crave both the aid of wine and choice cookery, to render my food acceptable to my palate, and easy of digestion." "It may be, holy father," said the Sub-Prior, "an occasional ride to the extremity of Saint Mary's patrimony, may have the same happy effect on your health as the air of the garden at Dundrennan."
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