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There, Captain Twinely, there is the boat with the sail spread, shooting out to sea. Look at her; look carefully; look well. How many people are there in her? Can you see? I can see very well. There are three, and who is the third?" The tears were gone out of her eyes now. They blazed with triumph and satisfaction. She laughed aloud, exultingly, bitterly. "Who is the third? Can you see?
A shout of laughter greeted the remark. "Fetch out the rest of the wine that's in it," said the general, "we'll make a clean sweep of it. Or, stay, leave the poor devil one bottle of decent claret. He's to be hanged tomorrow morning. He may have a sup of comfort to-night." Captain Twinely saluted and withdrew. "General Clavering," said Lord Dunseveric, "I ask you to spare this young man's life.
Captain Twinely was given a broad hint that he must hawk at lower game, and keep his mouth shut about the hanging of his trooper. There was no objection to the yeomen outraging women so long as they confined themselves to farmers' wives, but an insult offered to Lord Dunseveric's sister and daughter, under Lord Dunseveric's own eyes, was a different matter.
Now, Captain Twinely, you have got the cannon, you had better go on to arrest your prisoners. I shall go with you, and remember I shall permit no violence unless resistance is offered. I have given your men one lesson to-night already. I am quite prepared to give them another if necessary." The rain had ceased when Maurice and Neal, with their charge, left the meeting-house.
"The market-house is full, sir," said Captain Twinely, "the officer in command says he can receive no more prisoners." "Damn it, man, shut him up somewhere else, then, but don't stand there talking to me and interrupting my dinner. Here, landlord, have you an empty cellar?" "Your worship, my lord general, there's only the wine cellar; but it's very nigh on empty now."
The worthy Hannah is not going to bathe either. She has too much good sense. Even these stupid yeomen must guess that we are carrying something else besides towels." "But I am going to bathe," said Una, "and it is intolerable that I should be spied upon and watched." The Comtesse rose and approached the men. "Where is Captain Twinely this morning?" she asked, smiling.
We are not well off for trees in this country, but there is at least one at the back of the meeting-house tall enough for the purpose." There was a threatening growl from the men outside. They drew together. Their hands were on their swords. Captain Twinely stood a little apart from them. His eyes were fixed on the ground. He made no motion, and showed no sign of obeying the orders he was given.
The rest, three of them with wounds, fled, yelling, down the lane. "The croppies are on us! Hell and murder! We're dead men!" There were about twenty of them, all well armed, but a night surprise has a tendency to shake the firmest nerves. Captain Twinely and his fellow-officer played no very heroic part.
Captain Twinely, in a suit of clothes he had borrowed from the master of the inn, and one of his men, stood near the fireplace. The room had been cleared of the drunken sleepers, but a good deal of the débris of their revel empty bottles, broken glasses, and little pools of spilt wine were still visible on the floor.
I guess, young fellow, if we'd had you with General Greene in Carolina we'd have combed you out and flogged the drunken ragamuffins you're supposed to be commanding. But I reckon you're just the meanest kind of Britisher there is, that kind that swaggers and runs away." "Seize that man," said Captain Twinely. "Tie him up. Flog him. Cut the life out of him."
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