Part 22 (1/2)
While he was still subrasp, and rose to his feet, victorious
”Yield ye!” he said ”I give you life”
”I yield ht, like a young norantly and foolhardily; but, by the array of the saints, ye fight bravely!”
dick turned to the beach The coht; over the hoarse roar of the breakers steel clanged upon steel, and cries of pain and the shout of battle resounded
”Lead ht ”It is fit this butchery should cease”
”Sir,” replied dick, ”so far as these brave fellows have a captain, the poor gentles, then, and I will bid my villains hold,” returned the other
There was so noble both in the voice and manner of his late opponent, and dick instantly dismissed all fears of treachery
”Lay down your arht ”I have yielded er was one of absolute command, and almost instantly the din and confusion of the mellay ceased
”Lawless,” cried dick, ”are ye safe?”
”Ay,” cried Lawless, ”safe and hearty”
”Light me the lantern,” said dick
”Is not Sir Daniel here?” inquired the knight
”Sir Daniel?” echoed dick ”Now, by the rood, I pray not It would go ill with me if he were”
”Ill with _you_, fair sir?” inquired the other ”Nay, then, if ye be not of Sir Daniel's party, I profess I coer Wherefore, then, fell ye uponand very fiery friend? to what earthly purpose? and, to entleman have I surrendered?”
But before dick could answer, a voice spoke in the darkness from close by dick could see the speaker's black and white badge, and the respectful salute which he addressed to his superior
”My lord,” said he, ”if these gentlemen be unfriends to Sir Daniel, it is pity, indeed, we should have been at bloith thereater that either they or we should linger here The watchers in the house--unless they be all dead or deaf--have heard our hanalled to the town; and unless we be the livelier in our departure, we are like to be taken, both of us, by a fresh foe”
”Hawksley is in the right,” added the lord ”How please ye, sir?
Whither shall we o where ye will for round of friendshi+p, and if, indeed, I began our acquaintance soedly, I would not churlishly continue Let us, then, separate, ht hand in mine; and at the hour and place that ye shall naree”
”Y' are too trustful, boy,” said the other; ”but this time your trust is not misplaced I will meet you at the point of day at St Bride's Cross
Coers disappeared from the scene with a rapidity that seeenial task of rifling the dead bodies, dick arden wall to examine the front of the house In a little upper loophole of the roof he beheld a light set; and as it would certainly be visible in town from the back s of Sir Daniel's nal feared by Hawksley, and that ere long the lances of the Knight of Tunstall would arrive upon the scene
He put his ear to the ground, and it see and hollow noise fro But the as already done; the last body was disarmed and stripped to the skin, and four felloere already wading seaward to commit it to the mercies of the deep