Chapter 19 THE HORSEMEN DEPART.

"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."-As You Like It.

When Marryott looked down from the oriel, he saw the horses huddled in a corner of the quadrangle. Rumney standing by the fountain, and several men about to swing the long piece of timber against the door a second time. Afar, at the gate by the road, as Hal could descry through the lea

            
            

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