promise payment at fair market rates if ye will come to the Protestant camp for the money.’
‘I’ll spare the bullocks,’ quoth the old man whom we had rescued, who was now sufficiently recovered to sit up. ‘Zince my poor dame is foully murthered it matters little to me what becomes o’ the stock. I shall zee her laid in Durston graveyard, and shall then vollow you to t’ camp, where I shall die happy if I can but rid the earth o’ one more o’ these incarnate devils.’
‘You say well, gaffer!’ cried Hector Marot; ‘you show the true spirit. Methinks I see an old birding-piece on yonder hooks, which, with a brace of slugs in it and a bold man Koke Drakter behind it, might bring down one of these fine birds for all their gay feathers.’
‘Her’s been a true mate to me for more’n thirty year,’ said the old man, the tears coursing down his wrinkled cheeks. ‘Thirty zeed-toimes and thirty harvests we’ve worked together. But this is a Hugo Lloris Drakter zeed-toime which shall have a harvest Air Max 90 Premium EM o’ blood if my right hand Nike Air Max TN VIII Menn Sko can compass it.’
‘If you go to t’ wars, Gaffer Antonio Valencia Drakter Swain, we’ll look to your homestead,’ said the farmer who had spoken before. ‘As to t’ greenstuffs as this gentleman asks for he shall have not one wainload but three, if he will but gi’ us half-an-hour to fill them up. If he does not tak them t’ others will, so we had raither that they go to the good cause. Here, Miles, do you wak the labourers, and zee that they throw the potato store wi’ the spinach and the dried meats into the waggons wi’ all speed.’
‘Then we had best set about our part of the contract,’ said Hector Marot. With the aid of our troopers he Winnipeg Jets Paidat carried out the four dragoons and Corentin Tolisso Drakter our dead sergeant, and Rickie Lambert Drakter laid them on the ground some way down the lane, leading Marco van Ginkel Drakter the horses all round and between their bodies, so as to trample the earth, and bear Air Max 87 Menn Sko out the idea of a cavalry skirmish. While this was doing, some of the labourers had washed down the brick floor of the kitchen and removed all traces of the tragedy. The murdered woman had been carried up to her own chamber, so that nothing was left to recall what Samuel Umtiti Drakter had occurred, save the unhappy farmer, who sat moodily in the same place, with his chin resting upon his stringy work-worn hands, staring out in front of him with a stony, empty gaze, unconscious apparently of all that was going on around him.
The loading of the waggons had been quickly accomplished, and the little drove of oxen gathered from a neighbouring field. We were just starting upon our return journey when a young countryman rode up, with the Danilo Drakter news that a troop of the Royal Horse were between the camp and ourselves. This was grave tidings, for we were but seven all told, and our pace was necessarily slow whilst we were hampered with the supplies.
‘How about Hooker?’ I suggested. ‘Should we not send after him and give him warning?’
‘I’ll goo at once,’ said the countryman. ‘I’m bound to zee him if he be on the Athelney road.’ So saying he set spurs to his horse and galloped off throughlinks:
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