Name: The Fool — Chapter 18
Author: H. C. Bailey

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ And an honest man are you. Tell me true then, and you, Walter, hear him, have you seen Sir Walter's men come to kill on my land?"
"I? My lord, not I." Siward was duly aghast.
"No, nor Gilbert's men come killing here," Sir Walter said. "But so it is. A hart of ten, with one of Gilbert's arrows in it across the King's chase."
"And a hart of ten, deep in my coverts, killed by a bolt of yours two days since. You struck first."
"God's death, do you own the shot then?"
"My lords, my lords," Siward spread out his hands between them. "More wrong will not make wrong right. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ Gilbert laughed.
Sir Walter put out his hand. "Let us hold together, Siward. I promise you, I fear you."
So they went in to drink wine on it and the King plucked Siward apart. "Shall I blazon you a coat of arms, Sir Siward? I will give you two crossbow bolts gules upon vert. Oh rogue!"
Siward smiled in his beard. "And two knights enraged proper. Nay, good my lord, a beggar on horseback should be my crest. But you are too wise for me. I pray you keep my secret. What is a man to do when men will not see their own good?" ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ What I have done here I can do on other land."
"Wherever I go this maid is mine, my lord," young Walter said.
Bran counted on his fingers and muttered to himself and sang: "Four men be here and four wise men and a maid withal I see, but who of them all is most worth to all is dark to a fool like me."
Then Sir Gilbert, whose mind, no bright one, was very sure of the use of the Hammer and its rents, cried out: "What, Siward, would you quit and go?"
"I hold of no lord who bears me ill." ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ I have seen naught, not I. But I hold little land and far beyond my holding your coverts march. That is the evil. Men mark not where they ride nor where they shoot. Honestly unknowing, or knowing but in the heat of the chase, your foresters cross their own bounds or the stricken beast runs on and dies far from the bowman. So it must be while your coverts march."
"Here is good comfort!" quoth Gilbert. "What, must I build me a wall about my land, because there are cursed bad woodmen beyond?"
"Look to your own, Gilbert," Sir Walter said. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ And in the storehouse "Alack the wise Siward," the King laughed. "A woman has undone all his wit. The man is but a man after all. Shall I strike in, brother?"
"Peace, peace. They want none but a fool," said Bran, and slouched out.
The child saw him and cried out and ran to him. "Bran, Bran, they are all angry and she is sad," she said, and clung to his arm that was about her.
"Nenny, nenny, they play a game that big folks play," Bran said. "An old, old game."
But when the child had left her Ursula came forward and took young Walter's hand and she looked up calmly at his father. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 18 (1921)

“ CHAPTER XVIII THE IRONMASTER IN the morning he was afoot betimes and out with Siward to be schooled in the work of the hammer. He saw the great smoking mound where the raw ore was built up with layers of charcoal and burnt till it fell into small pieces which could be fed into the great furnace. He saw that sandstone furnace in which the fire burnt half a year and more which was fed with ore twice in a day and from which the molten metal flowed to make sows of crude iron. ”

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