In the woods the birds were practising for their autumn chorus, voicing the ecstatic joy of life in little unexpected trills and bursts of song, while the heavy drone of the bees and the occasional cry of the grasshoppers13 denoted a more sober contentment. The soft, warm air was heavy with a myriad14 delicate scents15; breathing over the imagination faint, suggestive memories of a happy past and formless dreams of a golden future.
But as the heart of man is still untamed by the sweet influences of nature, so, on the afternoon in question, a scene was being enacted16 on the green before the Inn, as foul17 as the surrounding picture was fair, as though heaven and hell, God's love and tenderness to man, and man's brutality18 and cruelty to his fellows, were here met side by side.
In the centre of the green stood a tall whipping-post, and tied to this was a small boy of some nine years of age. His back was bare, his eyes were wide with fear, and his teeth were resolutely20 clenched22 to repress the sobs23 which ever and anon forced their way through his lips.
Over the boy, whip in hand, stood a man dressed in the uniform of a corporal of the 2d Tangiers Regiment24, a stout25, purple-faced fellow, with scrubby black hair and beard, near-set cunning eyes, a cruel mouth, and over all an air of supreme26 importance and self-satisfaction. This was Corporal Crutch27, a man whose life was alternately glorified28 by his own assurance of his remarkable29 ability and embittered30 by the world's blindness towards the same.
Some half dozen troopers stood around watching the scene, and on the edge of the group were three or four sobbing31 women and a crowd of wide-eyed, terrified children.
"Now, my lad," cried the corporal, with a gleeful chuckle32, "let us have no more of this obstinacy33. Nay34, an thou wilt35 not speak, I warrant me a taste of this whip will help me to the finding of thy tongue, and doubtless of thy father into the bargain. An thou beest a wise lad thou'lt speak now, once my arm gets to work on thee 'twill not be so ready to stop, maybe."
Some of the troopers laughed, and the women's sobs increased, but the boy remained resolutely silent.
"So thou wilt have it then," cried the corporal; and the whip descended36 with a sickening swish on to the boy's bare back.
Once! Twice! Thrice! The boy shuddered37 and sobbed38, but no word came from his lips, and the corporal, angered by this unexpected determination on the part of his victim, doubled the weight of his blows.
Suddenly a shout interrupted the proceedings39 and a loud, clear voice rang out imperiously:
"Hold, fellow! What art thou doing to the child? Loose him instantly."
The crowd round the corporal fell back hurriedly, and he himself paused and slowly turned his head in the direction whence the voice came.
The speaker was a tall, slender girl, with a face of such exquisite40 beauty as men may hope to see but once or twice in a lifetime, and having seen, may never hope to forget. The beautiful oval face, clear-skinned and glowing with colour, was outlined by soft dark hair, shading to black in the shadows, waving back from the low white brow in soft rippling41 curls. The clear-cut perfection of her features was relieved from coldness by the unmanageable dimple at one corner of her mouth, and by the frank directness of the deep blue eyes, which looked out upon the world from beneath their dark lashes43 with habitual45 fearlessness. The expression of her face was habitually46 happy and friendly, only the firm lines of her mouth and chin belying47 the general expression of good-tempered recklessness.
She was mounted on a rough pony48, and had drawn49 rein50 at the top of the hill leading down to the village, moved by an idle curiosity to learn the cause of the crowd before the Inn.
The faces of the sobbing women brightened when they saw the girl, and the men glanced at each other sheepishly.
"'Tis Mistress Barbara Winslow from the Manor51 House," muttered one. "Thou hadst best send the lad about his business, corporal."
But Corporal Crutch was an obstinate52 man, and one moreover who was imbued53 with a strong sense of his own importance; he had no mind to allow any woman, whether of high or low degree, to interfere54 with his chosen occupation. Moreover the Manor House was suspected of harbouring rebels, and its occupants were judged little better than rebels themselves. So paying no heed55 either to the command or the advice, he turned his back upon the advancing figure and raised his whip for another blow on the back of his trembling victim.
"Hold! I tell thee, fellow," cried the girl again angrily. "Dost thou not hear me? Nay, an thou wilt not, by Heaven I'll make thee obey."
Without further ado she galloped56 straight at the group on the green which scattered57 to right and left as she passed, then with a sudden quick movement cracked out the long lash44 of her riding whip, curling it lasso-like around the corporal's neck, and not checking her pace dragged him stumbling and stuttering backwards58 till he fell to the ground. Then releasing the whip handle and reining59 back her pony to admire her handiwork she burst into a peal60 of laughter. And indeed 'twas a fit subject for merriment, for the corporal was stout and angry and the lash was exceedingly long and heavy. The corporal alternately swore and struggled, and the lash became every minute more tightly entangled61 round his neck.
Presently Mistress Barbara checked her laughter, slipped from her pony and crossed to the whipping-post where the sobbing boy stood watching the scene with eager eyes in which hope and fear still strove for the mastery.
"Loose him," she cried imperiously, and the troopers hastened to obey her.
"My poor brave laddie," she murmured, bending over him tenderly. "Ah! but they have hurt thee cruelly. Get away to thy mother and fear not. They shall not touch thee again."
Then drawing herself up to her full height, and she was more than common tall, she faced round upon the group of men.
"Brutes62," she cried. "Brutes ye are, and no men to treat a poor helpless laddie thus. What! Have ye no manhood? Think shame of yourselves to stand by and let such work go on. An I were but a man I'd teach you a lesson you would not soon forget."
"'Tis well enough to talk," grumbled63 one of the troopers angrily; "but the lad's father is in hiding and we must know where he is, The boy could tell us well enough an he would speak. We caught him slipping thro' the wood an hour back. Yon basket of food he carried was for him, I warrant."
"'Tis very like," answered Barbara coldly. "What then?"
"What then? Why the fellow is a rebel."
"And what of that, pray? An his father be a rebel to King James, is that reason why the lad should be traitor64 to his own father? Shame on you! You who are fathers yourselves; would you have your sons cast such a teaching in your teeth?"
By this time the corporal had freed his neck from the lash and recovered his equanimity65. Now he bustled66 to the front with an air of importance.
"Best beware, mistress," he cried roughly. "Best beware. 'Tis ill work to interfere wi' the just punishment of traitors67."
Barbara turned to him and laughed softly.
"Ha! Sir Gallows-Bird. So thou hast escaped the hemp68; welcome on thy return to this wicked world."
"I tell thee, madame," stuttered the corporal angrily, "'tis ill work jesting——"
"Peace, fool!" she cried imperiously. "I marvel69 thou art not ashamed to show thy face after this day's work. I knew already you and your masters think it no shame to fight against women, but at least methought children might go unharmed. They can do but little harm to King James."
"Pshaw! Ye know nought70 of the matter," blustered71 the corporal. "I brook72 no interference in the exercise of my duty. Bring back the boy, Sam Perry, and proceed with the interrogation."
"Do not attempt it," answered the girl quietly, "for I will not permit it."
Sam Perry hesitated.
"What!" roared the corporal, "are ye afraid of a chit of a girl? Why do you not obey?"
"At your peril," cried Barbara sharply, moving before the men.
How the matter would eventually have terminated is doubtful had not a second interruption occurred.
The door of the Inn opened, and a figure emerged at sight of which the troopers shrank back sheepishly, and the corporal's air of importance vanished pitifully.
"What is the meaning of this disturbance73?" sharply demanded the new arrival.
Barbara turned eagerly towards him.
"Are you the leader of these butchers, sir?" she enquired74 haughtily75.
Though somewhat astonished at this unexpected mode of address, Captain Protheroe, for he it was, smiled slightly and answered politely enough:
"I am the captain of these men, if that is what you would ask, madame. Are all soldiers butchers in your estimation?"
"Soldiers!" she cried scornfully. "Call ye them soldiers? But perhaps you are even as they, and 'tis by your orders they torture women and children and make a veritable hell of God's earth. I wish you joy of such work."
"Pardon my dulness, madame," answered the captain calmly, "but I have not the least idea to what you are alluding76 or how I have incurred77 your displeasure."
"No? Then hearken, sir." And in burning words she described the cause of her indignation.
The captain listened with a gathering78 frown to her story, and at the conclusion turned on the corporal with a look that boded79 ill for that self-satisfied mortal.
"So, sirrah! Is this the way you carry out my orders? Have I not said I will have no violence to the village folk? And by Heaven I will be obeyed. I have long known thee for a knave80. Art fool and coward, too, that you must needs force children to help thee with thy work? Is this thy notion of a soldier's work? I'll teach thee better knowledge of thy duty ere I've done with thee. 'Tis not the first time I've heard such complaints; see to it it be the last, or by the saints 'twill be the end of thy service. I'll have no bullies81 in my troop. Go, sirrah!"
The discomfited82 corporal slunk off down the street casting an ugly glance over his shoulder at the girl who had brought such a rating upon him. But for her part Barbara laughed and waved her hand after the retreating figure.
"Fare thee well, Sir Knight83 of the whipcord," she cried gaily84.
When the corporal had vanished, followed by other troopers, the captain turned towards Barbara with a bow and said coldly:
"I trust you are satisfied with these orders, madame."
"I shall be satisfied, sir, when I know that the orders are executed," she answered coolly.
"Madame, I command here. Where I command I am obeyed."
"'Twere easy to believe it, sir," she answered with a half-smile and a glance at his resolute21 face. "But I have heard there be many orders delivered thus readily in public which privately85 are never intended to be performed."
The captain flushed hotly, but gave no further sign of anger at this insinuation.
"Indeed, I know not wherein I have deserved your distrust, madame."
"In such troublous times as these my distrust is given before my confidence, sir; and pray what have you done to prove that distrust is misplaced? You claim to be a gentleman, but by Heaven 'tis no gentle's work to hunt down poor wretches87 led astray by others who should have known a wiser path; 'tis no gentle's work to harry88 helpless women and children; 'tis no gentle's work to listen behind doors and spy through keyholes. By my faith, sir," she continued, her temper increasing at the remembrance of her many grievances89; "By my faith, sir, this poor wretch86 of a corporal whom you have so rated is virtue90 itself compared with you. He but executes the orders which you conceive, hiding yourself behind the name of gentleman."
The last words were delivered with biting scorn, and having concluded her tirade91, Barbara turned her back upon him and stepped towards her pony.
Captain Protheroe had remained politely silent during this harangue92. When her back was turned he smiled slightly and followed the indignant lady.
"Permit me to assist you to mount, madame," he said with grave politeness.
Barbara drew her skirts around her and answered with as much haughty93 dignity as her rising anger would permit:
"No, sir. When you have shown yourself capable of a gentleman's work you may be worthy94 of a gentleman's privileges. Until that time I prefer to mount alone and keep myself from the pollution of your touch."
But instead of being crushed as she had intended he should be, Captain Protheroe merely smiled again and stood politely aside to watch her mount. The pony was restless, two or three attempts were necessary before the feat42 was accomplished95, and during the struggle both Barbara's dignity and temper suffered considerably96. Captain Protheroe wisely made no further offer of assistance, but watched her efforts with an amused twinkle in his eyes.
Suddenly an idea struck him. He laughed softly, and placing a detaining hand upon the pony's bridle97 he turned once more to the lady, an ironical98 smile playing about his lips.
"Madame, since I am unworthy to touch your foot, I fear I am equally unworthy to retain this small token of remembrance which you so obligingly bestowed99 upon me that evening some weeks ago when you did me the honour to embrace me." So speaking he placed his hand in the pocket of his coat and drew forth100 the scarlet101 ribbon of the cloak which she had left in his hands when she fled from him at their first meeting.
Had there been magic in the small piece of ribbon it could not well have wrought102 a greater change in Barbara. Her attempt at dignity vanished. A wave of crimson103 passed over her face, her eyes blazed, and when she spoke104 it was in a voice choked with passion.
"How dare you, sir! 'Tis a most cowardly lie. 'Twas no embrace, as you might know well. 'Twas—'Twas—an assault."
Her persecutor105 was as unmoved by her passion as he had been by her rating.
"No embrace?" he drawled in polite astonishment106. "Nay, then I pray you pardon my mistake, which you will grant me was a natural one. Truly an that be your manner of assaulting your enemies, I forgive the Fates for having ranked me among their number, and shall desire of them nothing better than continuous battery at your hands."
"Have your desire then," cried Barbara furiously, and doubling up her first she dealt him a fierce blow on the side of his face.
With a quiet smile he turned his head.
"The other cheek, madame?"
Barbara gasped107 and for a moment stared down into the cool face raised to hers. Then suddenly her eyes twinkled, her mouth dimpled, and she broke into a soft, half-angry laugh which, however, she as quickly repressed.
"By Heaven, sir, an you be not the most aggravating108 man in the kingdom, Heaven grant I may never meet him. How dare you detain me thus? Loose my pony instantly."
He drew back with a low bow.
"Your pardon, madame, your way is free. In the meantime I will keep this token till ye redeem109 it by another embrace—I should say, assault."
"Then you will keep it forever, sir."
"It is nought but the alternative that I should desire more," answered the captain still with the same quiet smile. But Barbara was too furious to answer, and whipping up her pony she galloped away.
The captain stood silently watching her till she disappeared from the narrow village street, then he turned and walked into the Inn.
In the taproom sat the corporal, his wounded pride somewhat soothed110 by generous potations, holding forth upon the subject of his grievances to the half-dozen troopers collected there.
"'Tis a fine state of things when any blue-eyed wench is to be allowed to interfere in the administration of justice and say this ye shall and this ye shall not do, for all the world like the general himself. 'Tis no sort of work. 'Twas very different in the old days wi' Captain Carrington. Then an a lad would not speak we had ways to teach him. But now——" He paused cautiously and confided111 his criticism of his superior officer to the depths of his tankard.
"This Mistress Barbara is a bold wench," ventured Sam Perry cautiously.
The corporal's face darkened.
"Mistress Winslow had best be careful," he muttered. "Her brother is attainted as a rebel, and lieth somewhere in hiding, and I warrant yon haughty wench knows where. Zounds! I'll keep a careful watch of her—and I doubt not soon to surprise her secret. 'Twere a sweet revenge," he muttered, rubbing his fingers gleefully; "and 'twould teach her 'tis scant112 wisdom to bandy words wi' them in authority and fling whips i' an honest man's face."
Meanwhile Barbara rode home slowly, talking to herself as was her wont113.
"Odd's bodikin! as Rupert would say, but how the fat corporal did puff114 and splutter. Poor Cicely would say 'twere wicked folly115 thus to anger our enemies against us, but sure such a prank116 can do no harm. The corporal is patently a fool, I fear him not; and as for the other——" Here she paused and laughed half-angrily. "He surely would not venge his quarrel with me on Rupert. But what an immovable fellow it is. How I would love to see him angry. 'Twere perchance a dangerous experiment, but I were no true woman did I not long to try. Ah! well, an he remain here much longer I fear he may have many chances to taste of my temper. 'Tis a brutal19 world." And so alternately laughing and frowning, she rode home to the Manor House.
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