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"Then speak not of it, Roger Be this Giles's erkin, leave it to estion soft and subtle, with knowing look and ag of head, so work upon my lord that he shall hither hot-foot haste--"

"Atat moonrise!"

"Verily, lady, at moonrise! And a blue caive it thee"

Meanwhile, Beltane, hurt and angry, betook hiun their deadlyto a quiet corner of the battleers, under cover of the cat that hourly crept h, worked amain to dam the moat

Now as he leaned thus, a hand slipped within his arht fair hed Beltane, "though there be clouds to the west And the causeway across the roweth apace; I have watched yon cat creep a full yard--"

"Aye, verily, by mid-day, Beltane, 'twill reach our wall, then will they advance their ram to the battery, methinks"

"And what then, Benedict?"

"Then shall we destroy their ram forthith devil-fire, dear lad!"

"Aye, and how then, Benedict?"

"Then, belike will they plant ladders on the causeway and attempt the wall by storm, so shall we come to handstrokes at last and beset the oil and hew their ladders in sunder"

"And after, Benedict?"

"Hey-day, Beltane, here be a many questions--"

"Aye, Benedict, 'tis that I do look into the future And what future can there be? Though we maintain our walls a year, or two, or three, yet in the end Belsaye must fall"