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"Albeit what is once executed cannot be prevented," said Captain Champernoun; "yet 'tis thought certain that if the resignation of Lord Leicester's commission had been deferred yet some little time; the whole country and towns would have so revolted and mutinied against the government and authority of the States, as that they should have had no more credit given them by the people than pleased her Majesty.
His Majesty will be well advised to quiet the rabble or he will lose some trusty servants." In the Rue du Coq, now almost empty, the two, horsemen halted. "We had better be journeying, Gawain. Guise's jewel will open the gates. In an hour's time all Paris will be on our trail." "There is still that priest," said Champernoun doggedly. He was breathing heavily, and his eyes were light and daring.
"What is that thing gilt like a chalice?" whispered Champernoun. "Henry of Guise," said Gaspard. The Duke caught sight of the two men in the centre of the ring. The lanterns made the whole place bright and he could see every detail of their dress and bearing. He saluted them courteously. "We make your Grace our compliments," said Gaspard.
The troopers were heavy fellows, cumbrously armed, who, even with numbers on their side, stood little chance against two swift swordsmen, who had been trained to fight together against odds. One Gaspard pulled from the saddle so that he lay senseless on the ground. One Champernoun felled with a sword cut of which no morion could break the force.
He learnt it when he went over, at seventeen years old, with his gallant kinsman Henry Champernoun, and his band of a hundred gentlemen volunteers, to flesh his maiden sword in behalf of the persecuted French Protestants.
"Albeit what is once executed cannot be prevented," said Captain Champernoun; "yet 'tis thought certain that if the resignation of Lord Leicester's commission had been deferred yet some little time; the whole country and towns would have so revolted and mutinied against the government and authority of the States, as that they should have had no more credit given them by the people than pleased her Majesty.
"I make out six," said Champernoun, who had a falcon's eye. "Two priests and four men-at-arms. Reasonable odds, such as I love. Faith, that monk travels fast!" "I do not think there will be much fighting," said Gaspard. Twenty minutes later they rode abreast of the party, which at first had wheeled round on guard, and then had resumed its course at the sight of the white armlets.
With mischief-makers like Champernoun in every city, and with such diplomatists at Ostend as Croft and Ropers and Valentine Dale, was it wonderful that the King and the Duke of Parma found time to mature their plans for the destruction of both countries? Lord Willoughby, too, was extremely dissatisfied with his own position. He received no commission from the Queen for several months.
Heaven grant that they may not bring home the fashion with them." "A man must drink, they say, or die of the ague, in those vile swamps," said Amyas. "When they get home here, they will not need it." "Heaven grant it," said Frank; "I should be sorry to see Devonshire a drunken county; and there are many of our men out there with Mr. Champernoun."
"This has been your day of triumph, father. I would round it off worthily by helping you to a martyr's crown. Gawain," and he turned to his companion, "go up the road and fetch me the rope which binds the minister." The runaway was feeding peaceably by the highway. Champernoun cut the old man's bonds, and laid him fainting on the grass. He brought back with him a length of stout cord.
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