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I remembered how indignant the Oulton wherrymen had been when a gentleman offered them money for saving his daughter's life. I had seen the man robbed, what else could I have done? I could have done no less than tell him. I resolved that I would refuse the gift when next I saw him. At dinner that day, I was full of Mr. Jermyn, much to my uncle's annoyance. "Who is this Mr.
"Yes, many;" assented Lord Shrope in answer to the girl's remark, as retinues of barges passed them, filled with many a freight of brave men and beautiful women. "Hearken, how the oarsmen keep time to their oars." Francis listened with delight as the song of the wherrymen swelled in a mighty chorus, for every boatman sang the same thing: "Heave ho! rumbelow!" "And the swans," she cried excitedly.
There when all collected the entire number amounted to two hundred and seventy-eight though a certain proportion of these were grown men, priests, wherrymen and beggars, who had joined the rabble in search of plunder. It did not look well for them that the Duke of Norfolk and his son, the Earl of Surrey, were joined in the commission with the Lord Mayor.
"The fellows do not know their fortune; they might lead such sweet meditative lives; they do not, I am well aware, for I have never heard such blasphemy as I have heard from wherrymen. But what opportunities are theirs! If I were not your father, my darling, I would be a wherryman. Si cognovisses et tu quae ad pacem tibi! Mr. Torridon, would you not be a wherryman if you were not Mr. Torridon?"
A feeling of dread took possession of the girl as her gaze fell upon the slimy walls of the dismal arch. The wherrymen ceased rowing and the water rippled sullenly against the sides of the boat which soon, impelled by the former efforts of the oarsmen, touched the steps. The lieutenant of the Tower, followed by numerous warders, appeared and gave acknowledgment of their receipt to the guard.
There when all collected the entire number amounted to two hundred and seventy-eight, though a certain proportion of these were grown men, priests, wherrymen and beggars, who had joined the rabble in search of plunder. It did not look well for them that the Duke of Norfolk and his son, the Earl of Surrey, were joined in the commission with the Lord Mayor.
"Saw you aught of a man," he demanded hastily, "a man and a woman, a tall young woman you could not mistake her? 'Twas the Polly Greenway they should have found. Tell me, for God's sake, has any boat put out from this stair?" "Why, sir," replied one of the wherrymen who stood near by, pipe in mouth and hand in pocket, "since you mention it, there was a boat started but this instant for midstream.
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