He had ridden nearly another hour, when the dead silence of the scene was broken by the roll of distant thunder. Then forked lightning shooting from the horizon showed a line of country unmarked by any vestige7 of human habitation. Still he proceeded. The storm approached, till, breaking in peals8 over his head, it discharged such sheets of livid fire at his feet that the horse reared, and plunging9 amidst the blaze, flashed the light of his rider’s armor on the eyes of a troop of horsemen, who also stood under the tempest, gazing with affright at the scene. Wallace, by the same transitory illumination, saw the travelers, as they seemed to start back at his appearance; and, mistaking their apprehension10, he called to them, that his well-managed, though terrified steed, would do theirs no harm. One of them advanced and respectfully inquired of him the way to Rouen. Wallace replied that he was a stranger in this part of the country, and was also seeking that city. While he was yet speaking the thunder became more tremendous, and the lightning rolled in volumes along the ground, the horses of the troop became restive12, and one of them threw its rider. Cries of lamentation13, mingling14 with the groans15 of the fallen person, excited the compassion16 of Wallace. He rode toward the spot from when the latter proceeded, and asked the nearest bystander (for several had alighted) whether the unfortunate man was much hurt. The answer returned was full of alarm for the sufferer, and anxiety to obtain some place of shelter, for rain began to fall. In a few minutes it increased to torrents17, and the lightning ceasing, deepened the horrors of the scene by preventing the likelihood of discovering any human abode18. The men gathered round their fallen companion bewailing the prospect19 of his perishing under these inclemencies; but Wallace cheered them by saying he would seek a shelter for their friend, and blow his bugle20 when he had found one. With the word he turned his horse, and as he galloped21 along, called aloud on any Christian22 man who might live near, to open his doors to a dying traveler! After riding about in all directions, he saw a glimmering23 light for a moment, and then all was darkness; but again he called aloud for charity! and a shrill24 female voice answered, “I am a lone25 woman, with already one poor traveler in my house; but, for the Virgin’s sake, I will open my door to you, whatever you may be.” The good woman relighted her lamp, which the rain had extinguished; and, on her unlatching the door, Wallace briefly26 related what had happened, entreating27 her permission to bring the unfortunate person into the cottage. She readily consented; and giving him a lantern to guide his way, he blew his bugle, which was instantly answered by so glad and loud a shout that it assured him his companions could not be far distant, and that he must have made many a useless circuit before he had stopped at this charitable door.
The men directed him through the darkness by their voices, for the lantern threw its beams but a very little way, and, arriving at their side, by his assistance the bruised28 traveler was brought to the cottage. It was a poor hovel; but the good woman had spread a clean wooden coverlet over her own bed, in the inner chamber29, and thither30 Wallace carried the invalid31. He seemed in great pain, but his kind conductor answered their hostess’ inquiries32 respecting him, with a belief that no bones were broken.
“But yet,” cried she, “sad may be the effects of internal bruises33 on so emaciated34 a frame. I will venture to disturb my other guest, who sleeps in the loft35, and bring down a decoction that I keep there. It is made from simple herbs, and I am sure will be of service.”
The old woman having shown to the attendants where they might put their horses under shelter of a shed which projected from the cottage, ascended36 a few steps to the chamber above. Meanwhile, the Scottish chief, assisted by one of the men, disengaged the sufferer from his wet garments, and covered him with the blankets of the bed. Recovered to recollection by the comparative comfort of his bodily feelings, the stranger opened his eyes. He fixed37 them on Wallace, then looked around, and turned to Wallace again.
“Generous knight38!” cried he, “I have nothing but thanks to offer for this kindness. You seem to be of the highest rank, and yet have succored39 one who the world abjures40!”
The knight returned a courteous41 answer, and the invalid, in a paroxysm of emotion, added:
“Can it be possible that a prince of France has dared to act contrary to his peers?”
Wallace, not apprehending42 what had given rise to this question, supposed the stranger’s wits were disordered, and looked with that inquiry43 toward the attendant. Just at that moment a step, more active than that of their aged11 hostess, sounded above, and an exclamation44 of surprise followed it, in a voice that startled Wallace. He turned hastily round, and a young man sprung from the cottage stairs into the apartment — joy danced in every feature, and the ejaculation, “Wallace!”—“Bruce!” burst at once from the hearts of the two friends as they rushed into each other’s arms. All else present was lost to them in the delight of meeting after so perilous45 a separation — a delight not confined for its object to their individual selves, each saw in the other the hope of Scotland; and when they embraced, it was not merely with the ardor47 of friendship, but with that of patriotism49, rejoicing in the preservation50 of its chief dependence51.
While the chiefs spoke52 freely in their native tongue, before a people who could not be supposed to understand them, the aged stranger on the bed reiterated53 his moans. Wallace, in a few words, telling Bruce the manner of his reencounter with the sick man, and his belief that he was disordered in his mind, drew toward the bed, and offered him some of the decoction which the woman now brought. The invalid drank it, and gazed earnestly, first on Wallace and then on Bruce. “Pierre, withdraw,” cried he to his personal attendant. The man obeyed. “Sit down by me, noble friends,” said he to the Scottish chiefs, “and read a lesson, which I pray ye lay to your hearts!” Bruce glanced a look at Wallace that declared he was of his opinion. Wallace drew a stool, while his friend seated himself on the bed. The old woman, perceiving something extraordinary in the countenance54 of the bruised stranger, thought he was going to reveal some secret heavy on his mind, and also withdrew.
“You think my intellects are injured,” returned he, turning to Wallace, “because I addressed you as one of the house of Philip! Those jeweled lilies round your helmet led me into the error; I never before saw them granted to other than a prince of the blood. But think not, brave man, I respect you less, since I have discovered that you are not of the race of Philip — that you are other than a prince! Look on me — at this emaciated form — and behold55 the reverses of all earthly grandeur56! This palsied hand once held a scepter — these hollow temples were once bound with a crown! He that used to be followed as the source of honor, as the fountain of prosperity — with suppliants57 at his feet, and flatterers at his side — would now be left to solitude58 were it not for these few faithful servants, who, in spite of all changes, have preserved their allegiance to the end. Look on me, chiefs, and behold him who was the King of Scots!”
At this declaration, both Wallace and Bruce, struck with surprise and compassion at meeting their ancient enemy reduced to such abject59 misery60, with one impulse bowed their heads to him with an air of reverence61. The action penetrated62 the heart of Baliol. For when at the meeting and mutual63 exclamation of the two friends, he recognized in whose presence he lay, he fearfully remembered that, by his base submissions64, turning the scale of judgment65 in his favor, he had defrauded66 the grandsire of the very Bruce now before him of a fair decision on his rights to the crown! And when he looked on Wallace, who had preserved him from the effects of his accident, and brought him to a shelter from the raging terrors of the night, his conscience doubly smote67 him! for, from the hour of his elevation68 to that of his downfall, he had ever persecuted69 the family of Wallace; and, at the hour which was the crisis of her fate, had denied them the right of drawing their swords in defense70 of Scotland. He, her king, had resigned her into the hands of an usurper71; but Wallace, the injured Wallace, had arisen, like a star of light on the deep darkness of her captivity72, and Scotland was once more free. In the tempest, the exiled monarch73 had started at the blaze of the unknown knight’s jeweled panoply74; at the declaration of his name he shrunk before the brightness of his glory! and, falling back on the bed, he groaned75 aloud. To these young men, so strangely brought before him, and both of whom he had wronged, he determined immediately to reveal himself, and see whether they were equally resentful of injuries as those he had served had proved ungrateful for benefits received. He spoke; and when, instead of seeing the pair rise in indignation on his pronouncing his name, they bowed their heads and sat in respectful silence, his desolate76 heart expanded at once to admit the long-estranged emotion, and he burst into tears. He caught the hand of Bruce, who sat nearest to him, and, stretching out the other to Wallace, exclaimed, “I have not deserved this goodness from either of you. Perhaps you two are the only men now living whom I ever greatly injured; and you, excepting my four poor attendants, are, perhaps, the only men living who would compassionate77 my misfortunes!”
“These are lessons, king,” returned Wallace, with reverence, “to fit you for a better crown. And never in my eyes did the descendant of Alexander seem so worthy78 of his blood!”
The grateful monarch pressed his hand. Bruce continued to gaze on him with a thousand awful thoughts occupying his mind. Baliol read in his expressive79 countenance the reflections which chained his tongue.
“Behold, how low is laid the proud rival of your grandfather!” exclaimed he, turning to Bruce. “I compassed a throne I could not fill. I mistook the robes, the homage80, for the kingly dignity. I bartered81 the liberties of my country for a crown I knew not how to wear, and the insidious82 trafficker not only reclaimed83 it, but repaid me with a prison. There I expiated84 my crime against the upright Bruce! Not one of all the Scottish lords who crowded Edward’s court came to beguile85 a moment of sorrow from their captive monarch. Lonely I lived, for the tyrant86 even deprived me of the comfort of seeing my fellow-prisoner, Lord Douglas — he whom attachment87 to my true interests had betrayed to an English prison. I never saw him after the day of his being put into the Tower until that of his death.” Wallace interrupted the afflicted88 Baliol with an exclamation of surprise. “Yes,” added he, “I myself closed his eyes. At that awful hour he had petitioned to see me, and the boon89 was granted. I went to him, and then, with his dying breath, he spoke truths to me, which were indeed messengers from Heaven! They taught me what I was, and what I might be. He died. Edward was then in Flanders, and you, brave Wallace, being triumphant90 in Scotland, and laying such a stress in your negotiations91 for the return of Douglas, the Southron cabinet agreed to conceal92 his death, and, by making his name an instrument to excite your hopes and fears, turn your anxiety for him to their own advantage.”
A deep scarlet93 kindled94 over the face of Bruce. “With what a race have I been so long connected! What mean subterfuges95, what dastardly deceits, for the leaders of a great nation to adopt! Oh, king!” exclaimed he, turning to Baliol, “if you have errors to atone96 for, what then must be the penalty of my sin, for holding so long with an enemy as vile97 as he is ambitious! Scotland! Scotland! I must weep tears of blood for this!” He rose in agitation98. Baliol followed him with his eyes.
“Amiable Bruce! you too severely99 arraign100 a fault that was venial101 in you. Your father gave himself to Edward, and his son accompanied the tribute.”
Bruce vehemently102 answered, “If King Edward ever said that, he uttered a falsehood. My father loved him, confided103 in him, and the ingrate104 betrayed him! His fidelity105 was no gift of himself, in acknowledgment of inferiority; it was the pledge of a friendship exchanged on equal terms on the fields of Palestine. And well did King Edward know that he had no right over either my father or me; for in the moment he doubted our attachment, he was aware of having forfeited106 it. He knew he had no legal claim on us; and forgetting every law, human and divine, he made us prisoners. But my father found liberty in the grave, and I am ready to take a sure revenge in —” he would have added “Scotland,” but he forbore to give the last blow to the unhappy Baliol, by showing him that his kingdom had indeed passed from him, and that the man was before him who might be destined107 to wield108 his scepter. Bruce paused, and sat down in generous confusion.
“Hesitate not,” said Baliol, “to say where you will take your revenge! I know that the brave Wallace has laid open the way. Had I possessed109 such a leader of my troops, I should not now be a mendicant110 in this hovel; I should not be a creature to be pitied and despised. Wear him, Bruce — wear him in your heart’s core. He gives the throne he might have filled.”
“Make not that a subject of praise,” cried Wallace, “which if I had left undone111, would have stamped me a traitor112. I have only performed my duty; and may the Holy Anointer of the hearts of kings guide Bruce to his kingdom, and keep him there in peace and honor!”
Baliol rose in his bed at these words: “Bruce,” said he, “approach me near.” He obeyed. The feeble monarch turned to Wallace: “You have supported what was my kingdom through its last struggles for liberty; put forth113 your hand and support its exiled sovereign in his last legal act.” Wallace raised the king, so as to enable him to assume a kneeling posture115. Dizzy with the exertion116, for a moment he rested on the shoulder of the chief; and then looking up, he met the eyes of Bruce gazing on him with compassionate interest. The unhappy monarch stretched out his arms to Heaven: “May God pardon the injuries which my fatal ambition did to you and yours — the miseries117 I brought upon my country; and let your reign114 redeem118 my errors! May the spirit of wisdom bless you, my son!” His hands were now laid, with pious119 fervor120, on the head of Bruce, who sunk on his knees before him. “Whatever rights I had to the crown of Scotland, by the worthlessness of my reign they are forfeited; and I resign all unto you, even to the participation121 of the mere46 title of king. It has been as the ghost of my former self, as an accusing spirit to me, but, I trust, an angel of light to you, it will conduct your people into all happiness!” Exhausted122 by his feelings, he sunk back into the arms of Wallace. Bruce, rising from his knees, poured a little of the herb-balsam into the king’s mouth, and he revived. As Wallace laid him back on his pillows, he gazed wistfully at him, and grasping his hand, said in a low voice: “How did I throw a blessing123 from me! But in those days, when I rejected your services at Dunbar, I knew not the Almighty124 arm which brought the boy of Ellerslie to save his country! I scorned the patriot48 flame that spoke your mission, and the mercy of Heaven departed from me!”47
47 This renunciation of Baliol’s in favor of Bruce is an historical fact, and it was made in France.
Memory was now busy with the thoughts of Bruce. He remembered his father’s weak, if not criminal devotion at that time to the interests of Edward; he remembered his heart-wrung death; and looking at the desolate old age of another of Edward’s victims, his brave soul melted to pity and regret, and he retired125 into a distant part of the room, to shed, unobserved, the tears he could not restrain. Wallace soon after saw the eyes of the exhausted king close in sleep; and cautious of awakening126 him, he did not stir; but leaning against the thick oaken frame of the bed, was soon lost in as deep a repose127.
After some time of complete stillness (for the old dame128 and the attendants were at rest in the outer chamber), Bruce, whose low sighs were echoed by the wind alone, which swept in gusts129 by the little casement130, looked toward the abdicated131 monarch’s couch. He slept profoundly, yet frequently started, as if disturbed by troubled dreams. Wallace moved not on his hard pillow; and the serenity132 of perfect peace rested upon all his features.
“How tranquil133 is the sleep of the virtuous134!” thought Bruce, as he contemplated135 the difference between his state and that of Baliol; “there lies an accusing conscience; here rests one of the most faultless of created beings. It is, it is the sleep of innocence136! Come, ye slanderers,” continued he, mentally calling on those he had left at Edward’s court, “and tell me if an adulterer could look thus when he sleeps! Is there one trace of irregular passion about that placid137 mouth? Does one of those heavenly-composed features bear testimony138 to emotions which leave marks even when subdued139? No, virtue140 has set up her throne in that breast, and well may kings come to bow to it!”
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