Lay a garland on my hearse
Say I died true.
My love was false, but I was firm
From my hour of birth;
Upon my buried body lie
Lightly, gentle earth.
---BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
CHAPTER I. A MORNING RIDE
I had a sister, who among the race
Of gipsies was the fairest. Fair she was
In gentle blood, and gesture to her beauty.
---BROME.
On quitting Lady Rookwood's chamber5, Luke speeded along the gloomy corridor, descended6 the spiral stairs, and, swiftly traversing sundry7 other dark passages, issued from a door at the back of the house. Day was just beginning to break. His first object had been to furnish himself with means to expedite his flight; and, perceiving no one in the yard, he directed his hasty steps towards the stable. The door was fortunately unfastened; and, entering, he found a strong roan horse, which he knew, from description, had been his father's favorite hunter, and to the use of which he now considered himself fully8 entitled. The animal roused himself as he approached, shook his glossy9 coat, and neighed, as if he recognized the footsteps and voice.
"Thou art mistaken, old fellow," said Luke; "I am not he thou thinkest; nevertheless, I am glad thy instinct would have it so. If thou bearest my father's son as thou hast borne thy old master, o'er many a field for many a day, he need not fear the best mounted of his pursuers. Soho! come hither, Rook."
The noble steed turned at the call. Luke hastily saddled him, vaulted10 upon his back, and, disregarding every impediment in the shape of fence or ditch, shaped his course across the field towards the sexton's cottage, which he reached just as its owner was in the act of unlocking his door. Peter testified his delight and surprise at the escape of his grandson, by a greeting of chuckling11 laughter.
"How?--escaped!" exclaimed he. "Who has delivered you from the hands of the Moabites? Ha, ha! But why do I ask? Who could it have been but Jack12 Palmer?"
"My own hands have set me free," returned Luke. "I am indebted to no man for liberty; still less to him. But I cannot tarry here; each moment is precious. I came to request you to accompany me to the gipsy encampment. Will you go, or not?"
"And mount behind you?" replied Peter; "I like not the manner of conveyance13."
"Farewell, then." And Luke turned to depart.
"Stay; that is Sir Piers's horse, old Rook. I care not if I do ride him."
"Quick, then; mount."
"I will not delay you a moment," rejoined the sexton, opening his door, and throwing his implements14 into the cottage. "Back, Mole15; back, sir," cried he, as the dog rushed out to greet him. "Bring your steed nigh this stone, grandson Luke--there--a little nearer--all's right." And away they galloped16.
The sexton's first inquiries17 were directed to ascertain18 how Luke had accomplished19 his escape; and, having satisfied himself in this particular, he was content to remain silent; musing20, it might be, on the incidents detailed21 to him.
The road Luke chose was a rough, unfrequented lane, that skirted, for nearly a mile, the moss-grown palings of the park. It then diverged22 to the right, and seemed to bear towards a range of hills rising in the distance. High hedges impeded23 the view on either hand; but there were occasional gaps, affording glimpses of the tract24 of country through which he was riding. Meadows were seen steaming with heavy dews, intersected by a deep channelled stream, whose course was marked by a hanging cloud of vapor25, as well as by a row of melancholy26 pollard-willows, that stood like stripped, shivering urchins27 by the river side. Other fields succeeded, yellow with golden grain, or bright with flowering clover--the autumnal crop--colored with every shade, from the light green of the turnip29 to the darker verdure of the bean, the various products of the teeming30 land. The whole was backed by round drowsy31 masses of trees.
Luke spoke32 not, nor abated33 his furious course, till the road began to climb a steep ascent34. He then drew in the rein35, and from the heights of the acclivity surveyed the plain over which he had passed.
It was a rich agricultural district, with little picturesque36 beauty, but much of true English endearing loveliness to recommend it. Such a quiet, pleasing landscape, in short, as one views, at such a season of the year, from every eminence37 in every county of our merry isle38. The picture was made up of a tract of land filled with corn ripe for the sickle39, or studded with sheaves of the same golden produce, enlivened with green meadows, so deeply luxuriant as to claim the scythe40 for the second time; each divided from the other by thick hedgerows, the uniformity of which was broken ever and anon by some towering elm, tall poplar, or wide-branching oak. Many old farmhouses41, with their broad barns and crowded haystacks--forming little villages in themselves--ornamented the landscape at different points, and by their substantial look evidenced the fertility of the soil, and the thriving condition of its inhabitants. Some three miles distant might be seen the scattered42 hamlet of Rookwood; the dark russet thatch43 of its houses scarcely perceptible amidst the embrowned foliage44 of the surrounding timber. The site of the village was, however, pointed45 out by the square tower of the antique church, that crested46 the summit of the adjoining hill; and although the hall was entirely47 hidden from view, Luke readily traced out its locality amidst the depths of the dark grove48 in which it was embosomed.
This goodly prospect49 had other claims to attention in Luke's eyes besides its agricultural or pictorial50 merit. It was, or he deemed it was, his own. Far as his eye ranged, yea, even beyond the line of vision, the estates of Rookwood extended.
"Do you see that house below us in the valley?" asked Peter of his companion.
"I do," replied Luke; "a snug51 old house--a model of a farm. Everything looks comfortable and well to do about it. There are a dozen lusty haystacks, or thereabouts; and the great barn, with its roof yellowed like gold, looks built for a granary; and there are stables, kine-houses, orchards52, dovecots, and fishponds, and an old circular garden, with wall-fruit in abundance. He should be a happy man, and a wealthy one, who dwells therein."
"He dwells therein no longer," returned Peter; "he died last night."
"How know you that? None are stirring in the house as yet."
"The owner of that house, Simon Toft," replied Peter, "was last night struck by a thunderbolt. He was one of the coffin-bearers at your father's funeral. They are sleeping within the house, you say. 'Tis well. Let them sleep on--they will awaken53 too soon, wake when they may--ha, ha!"
"Peace!" cried Luke; "you blight54 everything--even this smiling landscape you would turn to gloom. Does not this morn awaken a happier train of thoughts within your mind? With me it makes amends55 for want of sleep, effaces56 resentment57, and banishes58 every black misgiving59. 'Tis a joyous60 thing thus to scour61 the country at earliest dawn; to catch all the spirit and freshness of the morning; to be abroad before the lazy world is half awake; to make the most of a brief existence; and to have spent a day of keen enjoyment62, almost before the day begins with some. I like to anticipate the rising of the glorious luminary63; to watch every line of light changing, as at this moment, from shuddering64 gray to blushing rose! See how the heavens are dyed! Who would exchange yon gorgeous spectacle," continued he, pointing towards the east, and again urging his horse to full speed down the hill, endangering the sexton's seat, and threatening to impale65 him upon the crupper of the saddle--"who would exchange that sight, and the exhilarating feeling of this fresh morn, for a couch of eiderdown, and a headache in reversion?"
"I for one," returned the sexton, sharply, "would willingly exchange it for that, or any other couch, provided it rid me of this accursed crupper, which galls66 me sorely. Moderate your pace, grandson Luke, or I must throw myself off the horse in self-defence."
Luke slackened his charger's pace, in compliance67 with the sexton's wish.
"Ah! well," continued Peter, restored in a measure to comfort; "now I can contemplate68 the sunrise, which you laud69, somewhat at mine ease. 'Tis a fine sight, I doubt not, to the eyes of youth; and, to the sanguine70 soul of him upon whom life itself is dawning, is, I dare say, inspiriting: but when the heyday71 of existence is past; when the blood flows sluggishly72 in the veins73; when one has known the desolating74 storms which the brightest sunrise has preceded, the seared heart refuses to trust its false glitter; and, like the experienced sailor, sees oft in the brightest skies a forecast of the tempest. To such a one, there can be no new dawn of the heart; no sun can gild75 its cold and cheerless horizon; no breeze can revive pulses that have long since ceased to throb76 with any chance emotion. I am too old to feel freshness in this nipping air. It chills me more than the damps of night, to which I am accustomed. Night--midnight! is my season of delight. Nature is instinct then with secrets dark and dread77. There is a language which he who sleepeth not, but will wake, and watch, may haply learn. Strange organs of speech hath the invisible world; strange language doth it talk; strange communion hold with him who would pry78 into its mysteries. It talks by bat and owl79--by the grave-worm, and by each crawling thing--by the dust of graves, as well as by those that rot therein--but ever doth it discourse80 by night, and specially81 when the moon is at the full. 'Tis the lore28 I have then learned that makes that season dear to me. Like your cat, mine eye expands in darkness. I blink at the sunshine, like your owl."
"Cease this forbidding strain," returned Luke; "it sounds as harshly as your own screech-owl's cry. Let your thoughts take a more sprightly82 turn, more in unison83 with my own and the fair aspect of nature."
"Shall I direct them to the gipsies' camp, then?" said Peter, with a sneer84. "Do your own thoughts tend thither85?"
"You are not altogether in the wrong," replied Luke. "I was thinking of the gipsies' camp, and of one who dwells amongst its tents."
"I knew it," replied Peter. "Did you hope to deceive me by attributing all your joyousness86 of heart to the dawn? Your thoughts have been wandering all this while upon one who hath, I will engage, a pair of sloe-black eyes, an olive skin, and yet withal a clear one--'black, yet comely87, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon'--a mesh88 of jetty hair, that hath entangled89 you in its network--ripe lips, and a cunning tongue--one of the plagues of Egypt.--Ha, ha!"
"You have guessed shrewdly," replied Luke; "I care not to own that my thoughts were so occupied."
"I was assured of it," replied the sexton. "And what may be the name of her towards whom your imagination was straying?"
"Sibila Perez," replied Luke. "Her father was a Spanish Gitano. She is known amongst her people by her mother's name of Lovel."
"She is beautiful, of course?"
"Ay, very beautiful!--but no matter! You shall judge of her charms anon."
"I will take your word for them," returned the sexton; "and you love her?"
"You are not married?" asked Peter, hastily.
"Heaven be praised! The mischief92 is not then irreparable. I would have you married--though not to a gipsy girl."
"And whom would you select?"
"One before whom Sybil's beauty would pale as stars at day's approach."
"There lives not such a one."
"Trust me there does. Eleanor Mowbray is lovely beyond parallel. I was merely speculating upon a possibility when I wished her yours--it is scarcely likely she would cast her eyes upon you."
"I shall not heed93 her neglect. Graced with my title, I doubt not, were it my pleasure to seek a bride amongst those of gentle blood, I should not find all indifferent to my suit."
"Possibly not. Yet what might weigh with others, would not weigh with her. There are qualities you lack which she has discovered in another."
"In whom?"
"In Ranulph Rookwood."
"Is he her suitor?"
"I have reason to think so."
"And you would have me abandon my own betrothed94 love, to beguile95 from my brother his destined96 bride? That were to imitate the conduct of my grandsire, the terrible Sir Reginald, towards his brother Alan."
The sexton answered not, and Luke fancied he could perceive a quivering in the hands that grasped his body for support. There was a brief pause in their conversation.
"And who is Eleanor Mowbray?" asked Luke, breaking the silence.
"Your cousin. On the mother's side a Rookwood. 'Tis therefore I would urge your union with her. There is a prophecy relating to your house, which seems as though it would be fulfilled in your person and in hers:
There shall be clamor and screaming, I trow;
But of right, and of rule, of the ancient nest,
The Rook that with Rook mates shall hold him possest."
"I place no faith in such fantasies," replied Luke; "and yet the lines bear strangely upon my present situation."
"Their application to yourself and Eleanor Mowbray is unquestionable," replied the sexton.
"It would seem so, indeed," rejoined Luke; and he again sank into abstraction, from which the sexton did not care to arouse him.
The aspect of the country had materially changed since their descent of the hill. In place of the richly-cultivated district which lay on the other side, a broad brown tract of waste land spread out before them, covered with scattered patches of gorse, stunted99 fern, and low brushwood, presenting an unvaried surface of unbaked turf. The shallow coat of sod was manifested by the stones that clattered100 under the horse's hoofs101 as he rapidly traversed the arid102 soil, clearing with ease to himself, though not without discomfort103 to the sexton, every gravelly trench104, natural chasm105, or other inequality of ground that occurred in his course. Clinging to his grandson with the tenacity106 of a bird of prey107, Peter for some time kept his station in security; but, unluckily, at one dike108 rather wider than the rest, the horse, owing possibly to the mismanagement, intentional109 or otherwise, of Luke, swerved110; and the sexton, dislodged from his "high estate," fell at the edge of the trench, and rolled incontinently to the bottom.
Luke drew in the rein to inquire if any bones were broken; and Peter presently upreared his dusty person from the abyss, and without condescending111 to make any reply, yet muttering curses, "not loud, but deep," accepted his grandson's proffered112 hand, and remounted.
While thus occupied, Luke fancied he heard a distant shout, and noting whence the sound proceeded--the same quarter by which he had approached the heath--he beheld113 a single horseman spurring in their direction at the top of his speed; and to judge from the rate at which he advanced, it was evident he was anything but indifferently mounted. Apprehensive114 of pursuit, Luke expedited the sexton's ascent; and that accomplished, without bestowing115 further regard upon the object of his solicitude117, he resumed his headlong flight. He now thought it necessary to bestow116 more attention on his choice of road, and, perfectly118 acquainted with the heath, avoided all unnecessary hazardous119 passes. In spite of his knowledge of the ground, and the excellence120 of his horse, the stranger sensibly gained upon him. The danger, however, was no longer imminent121.
"We are safe," cried Luke; "the limits of Hardchase are past. In a few seconds we shall enter Davenham Wood. I will turn the horse loose, and we will betake ourselves to flight amongst the trees. I will show you a place of concealment122. He cannot follow us on horseback, and on foot I defy him."
"Stay," cried the sexton. "He is not in pursuit--he takes another course--he wheels to the right. By Heaven! it is the Fiend himself upon a black horse, come for Bow-legged Ben. See, he is there already."
The horseman had turned, as the sexton stated, careering towards a revolting object at some little distance on the right hand. It was a gibbet, with its grisly burden. He rode swiftly towards it, and, reining123 in his horse, took off his hat, bowing profoundly to the carcase that swung in the morning breeze. Just at that moment a gust124 of air catching125 the fleshless skeleton, its arms seemed to be waved in reply to the salutation. A solitary126 crow winged its flight over the horseman's head as he paused. After a moment's halt, he wheeled about, and again shouted to Luke, waving his hat.
"As I live," said the latter, "it is Jack Palmer."
"Dick Turpin, you mean," rejoined the sexton. "He has been paying his respects to a brother blade. Ha, ha! Dick will never have the honor of a gibbet; he is too tender of the knife. Did you mark the crow? But here he comes." And in another instant Turpin was by their side.
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