not ignorant of that � lie thick with our ill haste is most needful but without and caution all is naught which then of this company will take me this letter bear it to my lord of and bring me the answer back one man instantly arose i will an t like you said he i will even risk my nay not so returned the knight it likes me not y are sly indeed but not speedy ye were a ever an t be so sir daniel am i cried another the saints f said the knight y are speedy but not sly ye would blunder me into john camp i thank you both for your good courage but in it may not be then offered himself and he also was refused i want you here good y are my right hand indeed returned the knight and then several d the black coming forward in a group sir daniel at length selected one and g ve him the letter now he said upon your good speed and better discretion we do all depend bring me a good answer back and before three weeks i will have my forest of these that brave us to our faces but mark it well the matter is not easy ye must steal forth under night and go like a fox and how ye are to cross till i know not neither by the bridge nor i can swim returned i will come soundly fear not well friend get ye to the replied sir daniel ye shall swim first of all in nut brown ale and with that he turned back into the hall sir daniel hath a wise tongue said aside to dick see now where many a lesser man had the matter over he it out plainly to his company here is a danger a and here and in the very nay by saint he is a bom captain i not a man but he is some deal up see how they fall again to work this praise of sir daniel put a thought in the lad s head he said how came my father by his end ask me not that replied i had no hand nor knowledge in it i will even dick asks questions be silent master dick for look you in a man s own business there he may speak but of matters and of common talk not so ask me sir � ay or if ye will not me and set off to make the rounds leaving dick in a muse wherefore would he not tell me thought the lad and wherefore named he � nay then had a hand in it he entered the house and passing some little way along a and passage came to the door of the cell where the hurt man lay groaning at his entrance started eagerly have ye brought the priest he cried not yet awhile returned dick y ave a word to tell me first how came my father harry by his death the man s face altered instantly i know not he replied nay ye know well returned dick seek not to put me by i tell you i know not repeated then said dick ye shall die here am i and here shall stay there shall no priest come near you rest assured for of what avail is an ye have no mind to right those wrongs ye had a hand in and without confession is but mockery ye say what ye mean not master dick said u the black a� it is ill threatening the dying and you to speak truth little and for as little as it you it shall serve you less stay an ye please ye will condemn my soul � ye shall learn nothing there is my last word to you and the wounded man turned upon the other side now dick to say truth had spoken hastily and was ashamed of his threat but he made one more effort he said mistake me not i know ye were but an instrument in the hands of others a must obey his lord i would not bear heavily on such an one but i begin to learn upon many sides that this great duty on my youth and ignorance to my father then good set aside the memory of my and in pure good will and honest give me a word of help the wounded man lay silent nor say what dick pleased could he extract another word from him well said dick i will go call the priest to you as ye desired for ye be in fault to me or mine i would not be willingly in fault to any least of all to one upon the last change again the old soldier heard him without speech or motion even his groans he had suppressed and as dick turned and left the room he was filled with admiration for that rugged fortitude and yet he thought of what use is courage dick asks questions without wit had his hands been clean he would have spoken his silence did confess the secret louder than words nay upon all sides proof on me sir daniel he or his men hath done this thing dick paused in the stone passage with a heavy heart at that hour in the ebb of sir daniel s fortune when he was by the of the black arrow and by the victorious was dick also to turn upon the man who had nourished and taught him who had severely punished indeed but yet protected his youth the necessity if it should prove to be one was cruel pray heaven he be innocent he said and then steps sounded on the and sir came gravely towards the lad one you earnestly said dick i am upon the way good richard said the priest it is this poor he is beyond 