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Updated: June 13, 2025
Thou should'st be henceforth my lord, my knight-at-arms to lead my powers 'gainst Duke Ivo, teaching Mortain to cringe no more to a usurper to free Pentavalon from her sorrows ah, see you not, Beltane?" "Helen!" he murmured, "O Helen, poor am I a beggar "
Upon me therefore, and only me, be the penalty; for mark me this, Seneschal! spill but one drop of blood of these innocents of Belsaye, and, as God seeth me, so will I hunt thee down, and take thee and tear out thine eyes, and cut off thine hands, and drive thee forth to starve! And this do I swear by the honour of my father, Beltane the Strong, Duke of Pentavalon!"
"Verily he regardeth poor Roger these days, master, e'en though my belt doth yet bear many accursed notches." "They shall be fewer anon, Roger; there be many poor souls for thee to save in woeful Pentavalon." Hereafter went they a while in silence, until of a sudden Roger halted and clapped hand to thigh. "Master, we go the wrong way, methinks." "Not so, we be close upon the forest road, Roger."
Nay, methinks better far thou dost love thy cold and cruel pride so must Pentavalon endure her grievous wrongs, and so do I pity her, but most of all I pity thee, messire!" Now would Beltane have answered but found no word, and therefore fell to black and bitter anger, and, turning on his heel, incontinent strode away into the council-hall where a banquet had been spread.
Outer and inner bailey were stormed and so at last came they, a desperate, close-fighting company, into the great tilt-yard before the castle. Now of a sudden a shout went up and thereafter was a great quiet a silence wherein friend and foe, panting and weary, stood alike at gaze. And amid this expectant hush the two Dukes of Pentavalon fronted each other.
So must I bide here in Pentavalon with my duty." So saying, he lifted Winfrida to Sir Jocelyn's ready clasp and thereafter spake with head downbent: "An thou chance to see her within Mortain, I pray you say that the blind doth see at last and is gone to his duty, that, peradventure, he may be, some day, more worthy her great love.
"Lady," said he, "behold here Beltane that is son to Beltane heretofore Duke and Lord of Pentavalon!" "Ah!" she whispered, "Beltane!" and of a sudden stretched out her arms in passionate yearning gesture, then, covering her face, sank upon her knees, "God pity me!" she sighed, "God pity me!" Thereafter she rose to her stately height and looked on Beltane, gentle and calm-eyed.
Then Beltane alighted from his horse and parting the throng with mailed hands, stood within the circle and looking round upon them laughed, and his laugh was harsh and bitter. "Forsooth, and must ye war with helpless women, O men of Pentavalon?" quoth he, and laughed again right scornfully; whereat those that held the witch relaxed their hold and fain would justify themselves.
And one by one, knight and squire, and man-at-arms, smiting, shrieking, groaning, were dragged down with merciless hands, to be wrenched at, torn, and trampled 'neath merciless feet, while high and clear above this fierce and dreadful clamour rose the shrill summons of a horn. And lo! a shout a roar drowning the shrieks of dying men, the screams of vengeful women, "Arise arise Pentavalon!"
"Why look you, gentle friar, I am in Belsaye, and Belsaye 'is in the hand of God! So fear not for me, but go you all and wait for me beyond the river. And, if I come not within the hour, then press on with speed for Thrasfordham within Bourne, and say to Sir Benedict that, while he liveth to draw sword, so is there hope for Pentavalon. But now quick! where lodgeth Sir Gui?"
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