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One of the squire's horses trotted me over; I came upon Colonel Hibbert Segrave near the Club-house, and heard that my father was off again: 'But your German prince and papa-in-law shall be free of the Club for the next fortnight, said he, and cordially asked to have the date of the marriage. My face astonished him. He excused himself for speaking of this happy event so abruptly.
His chief agents in pursuing this policy were Peter of Rivaux, Stephen Segrave, and Robert Passelewe. Of these, Peter of Rivaux was a Poitevin clerk, officially described as the bishop's nephew, but generally supposed to have been his son.
Young Segrave, so 'twas said, had been shipped to New England by his father, but Master and Mistress Endicott had gone beyond the seas at the expense of the State, and not for their own pleasure or advancement. It appears that my Lord Protector's vigilance patrol had kept a very sharp eye on these two people, who had more than once had to answer for illicit acts before the Courts.
He heartily pitied the young man before him, and was forming vague projects of how best to make him understand in private and without humiliation that the money which he had lost would be returned to him in full. Strangely enough he was still holding in his hand that king of diamonds which Endicott had dealt to him. Segrave, too, had been silent, of course.
"The devil himself hath been faithful to you, Master Lambert ..." said Segrave tonelessly, "you have the hell's own luck.... What do I pay you now?" "It was double or quits, Master Segrave," rejoined Lambert, "which brings it up to two hundred pounds.... You will do me the justice to own that I did not seek this game." In his heart he had already resolved not to make use of his own winnings.
But this suggestion raised a hot protest on the part of all the spectators. "He shall not go!" declared Segrave violently. "Not without leaving behind him what he has deliberately stolen," commented Endicott, raising his oily voice above the din. Lambert had waited patiently, whilst his employer spoke.
"And in a little quiet game, my good young friend," added Endicott, also in a whisper, "'tis wisest to take no heed of a loser's vapors." "I pay ace only!" quoth Segrave triumphantly, who in the meanwhile had continued the game. Lord Walterton swore a loud and prolonged oath. He had staked five guineas on a king and had lost.
His only political principle was obedience to the powers that were in the ascendant. Passelewe, a clerk who had acted as the agent of Randolph of Chester and Falkes of Bréauté at the Roman court, was, like Segrave, a mere tool. The Bishop of Winchester began to show his hand. Between June 26 and July 11, nineteen of the thirty-five sheriffdoms were bestowed on Peter of Rivaux for life.
"Before this round begins," said Sir James Overbury who was standing close behind Lord Walterton, also watching the game, "I will bet you, Walterton, that Segrave wins again." "Done with you," replied the other, "and I'll back mine own opinion by taking a hand." The florid woman brought him a chair, and he sat down at the table, as Endicott once more began to deal.
To-day the boot is on the other leg. The Earl of Shrewsbury, head of the Talbots, a race far famed alike in camp and field from the days of the Plantagenets. The Viscount Falkland, representative of that noble Cavalier who fell at Newbury. The Baron Mowbray and Segrave and Stourton, titles which carry us back almost to the days of the Great Charter. Nor does the feudal train end there.
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