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Updated: June 10, 2025
Looking up to Bertram, as they both did, as the embodiment of prowess and courage, they did not grudge him his wonderful discovery, but they were eager to visit the fugitive themselves, and to carry him food and drink. The days that followed were days of absolute enchantment to the boys, who delighted in waiting on Warbel and passing hours in his company.
"I have been up to the room," answered the boy. "I have been making it all ready. I was something disturbed by what chanced yester-afternoon. I told thee of Brother Fabian and his evil looks?" The other two nodded. "Yes, verily; but they be brothers of one fraternity. Surely one Benedictine would not hurt another?" "I know not that. I was talking this day with Warbel.
I doubt not he would be glad enow to number a Warbel again amongst his trusty servants." The man's face lighted up wonderfully. "If he would do that," he cried eagerly, "I should have no wish for anything better. But my master, the baron " "My father fears not the baron!" answered the boy proudly; "and, besides, his young kinsman is not dead.
The three boys and Warbel headed the party, and were followed by some eight or ten men of various degree, some bent on a day's pleasure for themselves, others there with a view of attending upon their master's sons. Bertram felt that he could have dispensed with any attendance save that of Warbel; but Sir Oliver had given his own orders.
Thou, my son, wilt for this one day and night be left in charge of thy mother and thy home and all within it; for I must needs take with me Warbel and a score of our stoutest fellows, for the lonely road to the coast is none too safe for travellers of the better sort. Be thou watchful and vigilant, and keep thine eyes and thine ears alike open.
It was a relief, too, to turn from grave thoughts and anxious forebodings to the anticipation of simpler pleasures, and the boys all ran to seek Warbel and ask him what these village fairs were like; for they had been much interrupted during the recent wars, and only now that peace had been for some years established did they begin to revive and gain their old characteristics.
"I trow he would," answered Warbel in a low voice; "but that does not make the deed done without peril of some sort following to the doer." Sir Oliver and his wife listened with some anxiety to the boys' story of the rescue of the peddler. Bertram observed the cloud upon his father's brow, and eagerly asked if he had done wrong. "I say not so, my son," replied the knight.
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