The rocky plateau above was peopled by pines and rowans, thatched also with a wild tangle7 of briar, whin, and heather. Crannies cleft8 into it; caves tunnelled its massive bosom9; innumerable minarets10 of stone mingled11 with the wind-wracked trees. The cliffs rose like the walls of a castle donjon from the forest floor, studded with dwarf12 trees, bearded with ferns and grass. The plateau was inaccessible13 from the forest save by a thin rocky track, where the western slope of the cliff tailed off to merge14 into the trees.
The significance of the place to Fulviac lay in the existence of a cavern15 or series of caves piercing the cliff, and opening both upon the southern and northern facades16 of the mass. A wooden causeway led to the southern entry, bridging a small gorge17 where a stream foamed18 under the pines. The yawn of the southern opening had been built up with great blocks of stone, and the rough walls pierced by narrow squints19, and a gate opening under a rounded arch.
Within, the roof of the main cavern arched abruptly20 upwards21, hollowing a great dome22 over the smooth floor beneath. This grotesque23 and rock-ripped hall served as guard-room and dormitory, a very various chamber24. Winding25 ways smote26 from it into the black bowels27 of the cliff. The height of the main cavern dwindled28 as it tunnelled northwards into the rock. A second wall of stone partitioned the guard-room from a second and smaller chamber, lit always by a great lamp pendent from the ceiling, a chamber that served Fulviac as state-room.
From Fulviac's parlour the cavern narrowed to a throat-like gallery that had been expanded by human craft into a third and smaller room. This last rock chamber was wholly more healthy and habitable than the others. Its walls stood squarely from floor to rocky roof, and it was blessed with a wide casement30, that stared northwards over a vista31 of obeisant32 trees. A postern gave entry to the room from a narrow platform, and from this ledge33 a stairway cut in the flank of the cliff dwindled into the murk of the forest below.
A more romantic atmosphere had swept into the bleak34 galleries of the place that winter. Plundered35 stores were ransacked36, bales of merchandise ungirded, caskets and chests pilfered37 as for the endowing of the chamber of a queen. The northern room in the cliff blossomed into the rich opulence38 of a lady's bower39. Its stone walls were panelled with old oak carvings40 taken from some ancient manor42. There were tapestries43 of green, gold, and purple; an antique bed with a tester of silver silk, its flanks blazoned44 with coloured escutcheons. Painted glass, azure45, red, and gold, jewelled the casement, showing also Sebastian bound to his martyr's tree. A Jew merchant plundered on the road had surrendered a set of brazen46 ewers47, a lute48 inlaid with pearl, a carpet woven on the looms49 of the purple East. There were mirrors of steel about the walls. A carved prayer-desk, an embroidery50 frame, a crucifix wrought51 in ivory: Fulviac had consecrated52 all these to Yeoland, dead Rual's daughter.
A white lily amid a horde53 of thistles! The girl's life had drawn54 under the black shadow of the cliff, and into the clanging torrent55 of these rough men of the sword. It was a wild age and a wild region. Fulviac's rogues56 were like wolves in a forest lair, keen, bloody57, and relentless58. There was a rude strain of violence running through the strenuous59 mood of the place, like the song of Norse rovers, piercing the roar of the sea. Mystery enveloped60 the girl, war, and the sound of the sword. She fumbled61 at the riddle62 of Fate with the trembling fingers of one who unbars a prison gate in the hush63 of night. It was all strange and fantastic beyond the riot of a dream.
"Madame," Fulviac had said to her when he had hung a key at her girdle, "I have bidden you trust me; remember that I trust you in turn. Take this room as your sanctuary64. Lock me out when you will. I prepare, among other things, to perfect your vengeance65."
Yeoland suffered him and her necessity. She was shrewdly wise in the conviction that it would be useless to rebel against the man. Though over-masterful and secretive, his purpose appeared benignant in the opulence of its favour. Moreover, the forest was as a vast web holding her within the maze66 of the unknown.
"I have no alternative," she said to him, "I am in your power. And yet, I believe you are no villain67."
"Your charity pleases me. I am a man with a strong purpose."
"For good?"
"Do I not need you?"
"Am I then so powerful a person?"
"You will learn anon."
"You seem something of a mystic," she said to him.
"Madame," he retorted, "trust my discretion68. In due season I shall unfold to you certain aspects of life that will kindle69 your sympathies. I shall appeal to the woman in you. When you are wise you will commend my ambition."
"Wait. As yet you see through a glass darkly."
From the mountainous north to the warm southern sea, from the wooded west to the eastern fens71, the good King ruled, holding many great barons73 in feudal74 faith, and casting his fetters75 of gold over Church and State. Chivalry76 moved through the world to the clangour of arms and the songs of the troubadour. Lutes sounded on terrace and in garden, fair women bloomed like roses, bathed in a sensuous77 blaze of romance. Baron72 made war upon baron; glory and death were crowned together. The painter spread his colours in the halls of the great; the goldsmith and the carver wrought wondrous78 things to charm the eye. Church bells tolled79. Proud abbots carried the sword, and made fine flutter among the women. Innumerable saints crowded the avenues to heaven. It was a fair age and very lovely, full of colour and desire, music and the odour of romance.
And the poor? Their lot hung largely on the humour of an overlord, or the state of a gentleman's stomach. They had their saints' days, their games, their pageants80, their miracle plays. They had hovels of clay and wattle; labour in wind and rain; plagues and pestilences81 in the rotting filth82 of their city alleys83. They marked the great folk go by in silks and cloth of gold, saw the pomp and opulence of that other life, remembered their own rags and their squealing84 children.
And yet, consider the broad inclinations85 of the world. To eat, to be warm, to satisfy the flesh, to ease a lust86, to drink beer. There was no very vast gulf87 betwixt the rich man and the poor. The one feasted to music, the other scraped a bone to the dirge88 of toil89. They had like appetites, like satisfactions, and hell is considered to be Utopian in the extreme. The poor man envied the rich; the rich man ruled the poor. Envy, that jingling90 demagogue, has made riotous91 profit out of such a stew92 since the world was young.
Fulviac's cliff was shut out from the ken41 of man by leagues of woodland, moor93, and waste. The great pine forest girded it in its inmost bosom. No wayfarers94 rode that way; no huntsman ranged so deep; the place had an evil rumour95; many whom it had welcomed had never returned. Romancers had sung of it, the lay of Guingamor. Horror ruled black-browed over its pine-cumbered hills, its gloomy depths. Solitude96 abode97 there, as over a primæval sea, and there was no sound save the moan or storm-cry of the wind over its troubled trees.
According to legend lore98, Romulus peopled Rome with the offscourings of Italy. Fulviac had emulated99 the device with the state-craft of a strong conspirator100. The forest stood a grand accomplice101, abetting102 him with its myriad103 sentinels, who gossiped solely104 with the wind. The venture had been finely conceived, finely edificated. A cliff, a cave, five-score armed men. Not a vast power on the face of it to threaten a system or to shake a throne. Superficialities were fallacious, the surface false and fair as glistening105 ice. The forest hid more than a company of ruffians banded together to resist tyranny. Enthusiasm, genius, vigour106, such torches, like a burning hovel, can fling a city into flame.
As for the girl Yeoland, she was more than mocked by the swift vagaries107 of life. Two days of mordant108 realism had erased109 from her heart the dream visions of childhood. To be declared homeless, kinless111, in one day; to be bereft112 of liberty the next! To what end? She stared round the richly-garnished room into which Fate had thrust her, fingered the pearl-set lute, gazed at her own face in the steel mirrors. She was the same woman, yet how differently circumstanced! Fulviac's mood had not hinted at love, or at any meaner jest. What power could he prophesy113 to his advantage in the mere114 fairness of her face? What was the gall29 of a woman's vengeance to a man who had conceived the downfall of a kingdom?
Her knowledge of psychology115 was rustic116 in the extreme, and she had no wit for the unravelling117 of Fulviac's subtleties118. There were certain convictions, however, that abode with her even in her ignorance. She could have taken oath that he was no mere swashbuckler, no captain of outlaws119, no mere spoiler of men. Moreover, she believed him to be the possessor of some honour, and a large guerdon of virility120. Lastly, pity appealed her as a sentiment not to be discarded. The man, whoever he might be, appeared desirous of putting his broad shoulders betwixt her and the world.
Fulviac grew perspicuous sooner than she could have prophesied121. He had a fine, cloud-soaring way with him that seemed to ignore the mole-hills of common circumspection122. He had wit enough also to impose his trust on others with a certain graceful123 confidence that carried bribery124 in the very generosity125 of its hardiness126.
March was upon them like a spirit of discord127, wild, riotous weather, with the wind thundering like storm-waves upon the cliff. The pines were buffeting128 each other in the forest, and reeling beneath the scourgings of the breeze. Fulviac came to the girl one windy noon, when the caverns129 were full of the breath of the storm. His manner to her seemed as a significant prelude130, heralding131 the deep utterance132 of some human epic133.
Fulviac took the girl by a winding stair leading from the guard-room--a stair that circled upwards in the thickness of the rock some hundred steps or more, and opened into a basin-shaped pit on the plateau above. Dwarf trees and briars domed134 the hollow, giving vision of a grey and hurrying sky. The pair climbed a second stair that led to a rock perched like a pulpit on the margin135 of the southern precipice136. The wind swept gusty137 and tempestuous138 over the cliff. It tossed back the girl's hood110, made her stagger; she would have fallen had not Fulviac gripped her arm.
Below stretched an interminable waste of trees, of bowing pine-tops, and dishevelled boughs. The dull green of the forest merged139 into the grey of the cloud-strewn sky. On either hand the craggy bulwarks140 of the cliffs stretched east and west, its natural bartisans and battlements topped by a cornice of mysterious pines. It was a superb scene, rich with a wild liberty, stirred by the wizard chanting of the wind.
Fulviac watched the girl as she stood limned141 against the grey curtain of the sky. Her hair blew about her white throat and shoulders in sombre streams; her eyes were very bright under their dusky lashes143; and the wind had kissed a stronger colour into her cheeks. She was clad in a kirtle of laurel-green cloth, bound about the waist with a girdle of silver. A white kerchief lay like snow over her shoulders and bosom; her green sleeves were slashed144 and puffed145 with crimson146.
"Wild country," he said, looking in her eyes.
"Wild as the sea."
"You are a romanticist."
"After what I have suffered!"
"Romance and sorrow go hand in hand. For the moment my words are more material. You see this cliff?"
She turned to him and stood watching his face.
"This cliff is the core of a kingdom. A granite147 wedge to hurl148 feudalism to ruins, to topple tyranny."
She nodded slowly, with a grave self-reservation.
"You have hinted that you are ambitious," she said.
"Ambition would have stormed heaven."
"And your ladder?"
The man made a strong gesture, like one who points a squadron to the charge. His eyes shone with a glint of grimness under his shaggy brows.
"The rabid discontent of the poor, fermenting149 ever under the crust of custom. The hate of the toiler150 for the fop and the fool. The iron that lies under the rusting151 injustice152 of riches. The storm-cry of a people's vengeance against the tyrant153 and the torturer."
Yeoland, solemn of face, groped diligently154 amid her surmises155. The man was a visionary by his own showing; it was impossible to mistake him for a fool. Like all beings of uncommon156 power, he combined imagination with that huge vigour of mind that moves the world. A vast element of strength lay coiled in him, subtle, yet overpowering as the body of some great reptile157. The girl felt the gradual magic of his might mesmerising her with the inevitableness of its approach.
"You have brought me here?" she asked him.
"As I promised."
"Well?"
"To tell you something of the truth."
She looked at him with a penetrating158 frankness that was in spirit--laudatory.
"You put great trust in me," she said.
"That I may trust the more."
He sat himself down on a ledge of rock, and proceeded to parade before her imagination such visions as were well conceived to daze159 the reason of a girl taken fresh from a forest hermitage. He spoke160 of riot, revolution, and revenge; painted Utopias established beneath the benediction161 of a just personal tyranny, a country purged162 of oppression, a kingdom cleansed163 of pride. He told of arms stored in the warrens of the cliff, of grain and salted meat sufficient for an army. He pointed164 out the vast strength of the place, the plateau approachable only by the stairway in the cliff, and the narrow causeway towards the west. He described it as sufficient for the gathering165 and massing of a great host. Finally, he swept his hand over the leagues of forestland, dark as the sea, isleting the place from the ken of the world.
"You understand me?" he said to her.
"The King and the nobles are throned upon a pile of brushwood. A torch is plunged167 beneath; a tempest scourges168 the beacon169 into a furnace. The kingdom burns."
"Yes?"
"Consider me no mere visionary; I have the country at my back. For five years the work has gone on in secret. I have trusted nothing to chance. It needs a bold man to strike at a kingdom. I--Fulviac, am that man."
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conspirator
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outlaws
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toiler
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benediction
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