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The h to fetter six pirates, started forward to do reat frahed "You'll not need it, friend I knohen the odds are too great" He held out his arms, and the men fettered them wrist to wrist When they had finished he said cal hireen bay tree Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found'"

My lord turned from him, and pointed to me He kept his eyes upon my face while they shackled me hand and foot; then said abruptly, "You have cords there: bind his arms to his sides" The ht," commanded my lord

There came a wrathful clank of the minister's chains "The arm is torn and inflamed from shoulder to wrist, as I make no doubt you have been told!" he cried "For very shahter," said my lord, between his teeth

The men knotted the cords, and rose to their feet, to be diso" They drew back to the foot of the ladder, while the master of the ship went and perched his "The air is fresher here beneath the hatch," he reh I lay at my enemy's feet, I could yet set my teeth and look him in the eyes The cup was bitter, but I could drink it with an unmoved face

"Art paid?" he demanded "Art paid for the tree in the red forest without the haunted wood? Art paid, thou bridegrooh at uesthouse "

I thought he would murder me with the poniard he drew, but presently he put it up

"She is coht lights, and wine and laughter There are gentlewo to the lute, to them--and to her She is saved froed her; she knows that the King's Court of High Coman, will soon snap the fetters which she now shudders to think of; that the King and one besides will condone her past short madness Her cheeks are roses, her eyes are stars But nohen I pressed her hand between the verses of ain the dutiful ward of the King, the Lady Jocelyn Leigh--she hath asked to be so called"-"You lie," I said "She is my true and noble wife She ht, she h with her lips, but her heart is here with me in the hold"