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But she rode on unhurt, meditating how to secure Upstill when she got him to Wyfern, whither she doubted not he would follow her. Her difficulties were not yet past, however, for just as she reached her own ground, she was once again met by the order to stand.
When they had reached the centre of it, however, and glancing up at the awful bulk of stone towering above them, its walls strangely dented and furrowed, so as to such as they, might well suggest frightful means to wicked ends, they stood stock-still, refusing to go a step further; while their chief speaker, Upstill, emboldened by anger, fear, and the meek behaviour of the supposed earl, broke out in a torrent of arrogance, wherein his intention was to brandish the terrors of the High Parliament over the heads of his lordship of Worcester and all recusants.
What say'st thou then to dame Upstill? She is even now at the farm there, whence she watches over her husband while he watches over Raglan. Will she answer thy turn? 'She will, replied Dorothy.
'Hope you then, said one of them, as continuing their previous conversation, 'that we shall escape unhurt? It is a parlous business. Not as one of us is afeard as I knows on. But the old earl, he do have a most unregenerate temper, and you had better look to't, my masters. 'I tell thee, master Upstill, it's not the old earl as I'm afeard on, but the young lord.
Thou hadst better keep me in sight, she added, as she gave Dick his head, 'for no one else can free thee. Upstill ceased his futile efforts, caught up his carbine, and fired not without risk to Dorothy, for he was far too wrathful to take the aim that would have ensured her safety.
'I like not the business, captain Heywood, she said. 'Yet the business must be done, mistress Upstill. And hark'ee, for every paper thou findest upon her, I will give thee its weight in gold. I care not what it is. Bring it hither, and the dame's butter-scales withal. 'I warrant thee, captain! she returned. Come with me, mistress, and show what thou hast about thee.
'Ask the lady to pardon thee, Upstill. I can do nothing for thee, said Richard. Upstill would have knelt, in lack of other mode of petition strong enough to express the fervour of his desires for release, but Dorothy was content to see him punished, and would not see him degraded. 'Nay, master Upstill, she said, 'I desire not that thou shouldst take the measure of my foot to-night.
All this time Upstill and his party had been recounting with various embellishment their adventures both former and latter, and when Kaltoff was recognised, or at least suspected in the crowd, the rumour presently arose and spread that he was either the devil himself, or an accredited agent of that potentate.
The moon by this time was throwing an unclouded light from more than half a disc upon the field. Keeping a sharp eye upon the man's movements, she allowed him to come within a pace or two, but the moment he would have taken Dick by the bridle she was three or four yards away. 'Fright not my horse, friend, she said. 'But how! she added, suddenly remembering him, 'is it possible? Master Upstill!
Search her well, mistress Upstill, but show her no rudeness, for she hath the power to avenge it in a parlous manner, having gone to school to my lord Herbert of Raglan. Not the less must thou search her well, else will I look upon thee as no better than one of the malignants. The woman cast a glance of something very like hate, but mingled with fear, upon Dorothy.
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