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Percy Kirke was not lenient with blunderers. By a gesture he checked his men. He must consider. Mr. Blood, observing his pause, added further matter for his consideration. "Ye'll be remembering, Captain, that Lord Gildoy will have friends and relatives on the Tory side, who'll have something to say to Colonel Kirke if his lordship should be handled like a common felon.
"He's in no case to be moved." "So much the worse for him. My affair is to round up rebels." He confirmed his order by a gesture. Two of his men took up the day-bed, and swung to depart with it. Gildoy made a feeble effort to put forth a hand towards Mr. Blood. "Sir," he said, "you leave me in your debt. If I live I shall study how to discharge it." Mr.
At last they alighted on the kidney stones of the courtyard, and Baynes, the master, of the homestead, grave of countenance and flustered of manner, gave them welcome. In the spacious, stone-flagged hall, the doctor found Lord Gildoy a very tall and dark young gentleman, prominent of chin and nose stretched on a cane day-bed under one of the tall mullioned windows, in the care of Mrs.
He would have clutched the doctor, and haled him forth by force in bedgown and slippers as he was. But the doctor eluded that too eager hand. "To be sure, I'll come," said he. He was distressed. Gildoy had been a very friendly, generous patron to him since his settling in these parts. And Mr.
On that I charge you to answer truthfully. How came you to be taken with these rebels?" Peter Blood gaped at him a moment in consternation. The man was incredible, unreal, fantastic, a nightmare judge. Then he collected himself to answer. "I was summoned that morning to succour Lord Gildoy, and I conceived it to be the duty imposed upon me by my calling to answer that summons." "Did you so?"
If I had known as much of him before as I know to-day, I don't doubt I should have given cause to be where I am now." And then on a sudden thought: "And where will Lord Gildoy be, do you suppose?" he asked. Young Pitt, whom he addressed, turned towards him a face from which the ruddy tan of the sea had faded almost completely during those months of captivity.
"Why, what should you have been doing there in the company of rebels, two of whom Lord Gildoy and your fellow there have already admitted their guilt?" "That is what I beg leave to tell your lordship." "I pray you do, and in God's name be brief, man. For if I am to be troubled with the say of all you traitor dogs, I may sit here until the Spring Assizes."
The Captain was taken aback by these three words, which Mr. Blood had stressed. "Sure, now, any but a fool or a savage would have asked his name before ordering him to the gallows. The gentleman is my Lord Gildoy." And then his lordship spoke for himself, in a weak voice. "I make no concealment of my association with the Duke of Monmouth. I'll take the consequences.
Did he tell you whom it was that you were desired to succour?" "Lord Gildoy yes." "And you knew that Lord Gildoy had been wounded in the battle, and on what side he fought?" "I knew." "And yet, being, as you would have us believe, a true and loyal subject of our Lord the King, you went to succour him?" Peter Blood lost patience for a moment.
With great prolixity he stated the general case against the three men, and the particular case against Peter Blood, whose indictment was to be taken first. The only witness called for the King was Captain Hobart. He testified briskly to the manner in which he had found and taken the three prisoners, together with Lord Gildoy.
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