The Lord Flavian was inordinately8 cheerful that morning, as he rode in green and red through the prophetic woods. Heart and weather were in kindred keeping, and his youth sang like a brook9 after April rains. The woods danced in dew. Far on its rocky hill the towers of Gilderoy would soon beckon10 him above the trees. Beneath the shadow of the cathedral tower stood a gabled house with gilded11 vanes and roofs of generous red. There in Gilderoy, in a room hung with cloth of purple and gold, white arms waited, and the bosom12 of a golden Helen held love like a red rose in a pool of milky13 spikenard.
Picture a slim but muscular man with the virile14 figure of a young David, a keen, smooth face, a halo of brown hair, eyes eloquent15 as a woman's. Picture a good grey horse trapped in red and green, full of fettle as a colt, burly as a bull. Picture the ermined borderings, the jewelled clasps, brigantine of quilted velvet16, fur-lined bassinet bright as a star. Youth, clean, adventurous17, aglow18 to the last finger-tip, impetuous to the tune19 of thirty breaths a minute. Youth with all its splendid waywardness, its generosities20, its immense self-intoxications. Youth with the voice of a Golden Summer in its heart, and for its plume21 the gorgeous fires of eve.
Wealth often breeds apathy22 and parsimonious23 instincts. It is the beggar whose purse bursts with joy, whose soul blazes generous red upon the clouds. As for Flavian of Gambrevault and Avalon, he was rich but no miser24, proud yet not haughty25, sanguine26 but not vicious. Like many a man inspired by an instinctive27 idealism, his heart ran before his reason: they not having come cheek by jowl as in later years. He was very devout28, yet very worldly; very ardent29, yet over hasty. Mark him then, a lovable fool in the eyes of philosophy; a cup of mingled30 wine, both white and red. He was a great lord; yet his serfs loved him.
The Lady Duessa's parents, good folk, had been blessed with aspirations31. Gambrevault and Avalon had bulked very gloriously under the steel-blue vault1 of pride. Moreover, their daughter was a sensuous32 being, who panted for poetic33 surroundings, and lived to music. A boy of twenty; a passionate34, dark-eyed, big-bosomed houri of twenty and five; bell, book, and ring--such had been the bridal bargain consummated35 on church principles five years ago or more. A youth of twenty is not supremely36 wise concerning the world, or his own heart. The Lord Flavian's marriage had not proved a magic blessing37 to him. Parentally sealed marriage deeds are the edicts of the devil.
Quickly are the mighty38 fallen, and the chalices39 of love broken. It was no mere40 chance ambuscade that waited open-mouthed for Flavian, Lord of Gambrevault and Avalon, Warden41 of the Southern Marches, Knight42 of the Order of the Rose, as he rode that morning to Gilderoy, a disciple43 of Venus. In a certain perilous44 place, the road ran betwixt walls of rock, and under the umbrage45 of overhanging trees. Twenty men with pike and gisarme swarming46 out of the woods; a short scuffle and a stabbed horse; a gag in the mouth, a bandage over the eyes, a mule's back, half a dozen thongs47 of stout48 leather. That same evening the Lord Flavian was brought like a bale of merchandise into Fulviac's guard-room, and tumbled on a heap of straw in a corner.
They were grim men, these forest rangers49, not given to pity, or the light handling of a feud50. A poniard point was their pet oath, a whip of the sword the best word with an enemy. They bit their thumb nails at creation, and were not gentle in the quest of a creed51. Fulviac heard their news, and commended them. They were like the ogres of the old fables52; the red blood of a lusty aristocrat54 smelt55 fresh for the sword's supper.
The girl Yeoland was at her prayer-desk with a blazoned56 breviary under her fingers, when Fulviac came to her with tidings of the day's capture. She knelt with her hands crossed upon her bosom, as Fulviac stood in the darkened doorway57. To the man she appeared as the Madonna in some picture of the Annunciation, the yellow light from the lamp streaming down upon her with a lustre58 of sanctity.
"They have brought the boar home."
"Dead?"
For the girl it was a descent from spiritual themes to the stark62 realism of life. She left her prayer-desk with a little sigh. Her hands trembled as she drew a scarlet63 cloak about her, and fastened it with a girdle of green leather. Her eyes dwelt on Fulviac's face with a species of dusky pain.
"Come," he said to her.
"Whither?"
"To judge him."
"Not before all, not in the guard-room."
"Leave it to me," he said. "Be forewarned. We deal with no mere swashbuckler."
They went together to Fulviac's parlour, where a great brazen64 lamp hung from the roof, and a book bound in black leather lay chained on the table. Yeoland took the man's carved chair, while he stood behind her leaning on the rail. She was paler than was her wont65. Now and again she pressed a hand to her breast, as though to stay the too rapid beating of her heart.
Two guards bearing partisans66 came in from the guard-room with a man bound and blindfold67 between them. A third followed, bearing a two-handed sword naked over his shoulder. He was known as Nord of the Hammer, an armourer like to a Norse Volund, burly, strong as a bear. The door was barred upon them. One of the guards plucked the cloth from the bound man's face.
In the malicious68 imagery of thought, Yeoland had often pictured to herself this Flavian of Gambrevault, a coarse, florid ruffian, burly and brutal69, a fleshly demigod in the world of feudalism. So much for conjecture70. What she beheld71 was a straight-lipped, clean-limbed man, slim as a cypress72, supple73 as good steel. The face was young yet strong, the grey eyes clear and fearless. Moreover there was a certain lonely look about him that invoked74 pity, and angered her in an enigmatic way. She was wrath76 with him for being what he was, for contradicting the previous imaginings of her mind.
Flavian of Gambrevault stood bound before her, an aristocrat of aristocrats77, outraged78 in pride, yet proud beyond complaint. The self-mastery of his breeding kept him a stately figure despite his tumbling and his youth, one convinced of lordship and the powerful splendour of his name. The whole affair to him was illogical, preposterous79, insolent80. A gentleman of the best blood in the kingdom could not be hustled81 out of his dignity by the horse-play of a bevy82 of cut-throats.
Possibly the first vision to snare83 the man's glance was the elfin loveliness of the girl, who sat throned in the great chair as on a judgment84 seat. He marked the rose-white beauty of her skin, her sapphire85 eyes gleaming black in certain lights, her ebon hair bound with a fillet of sky-blue leather. Moreover, it was plain to the man in turn that this damoisel in the red gown was deciphering his features in turn with a curiosity that was no vapid86 virtue87. As for Fulviac, he watched them both with his amber-brown eyes, eyes that missed no movement in the mask of life. To him the scene under the great brazen lamp was a study in moods and emotions.
The aristocrat was the first to defy the silence. He had stared round the room at his leisure, and at each of its motionless figures in turn. The great sword, slanted88 in gleaming nakedness over Nord's shoulder, appeared to fascinate him for the moment. Despite his ambiguous sanctity, he showed no badge of panic or distress89.
Ignoring the woman, he challenged Fulviac, who leant upon the chair rail, watching him with an enigmatic smile.
"Goodman in the red doublet," quoth he, "when you have stared your fill at me, I will ask you to read me the moral of this fable53."
Fulviac stroked his chin with the air of a man who holds an adversary90 at some subtle disadvantage.
"Messire," he said, "address yourself to madame--here; you are her affair in the main."
The Warden of the Southern Marches bowed as by habit. His grey eyes reverted91 to Yeoland's face, searching it with a certain courteous92 curiosity that took her beauty for its justification93. The woman was an enigma75 to him, a most magical sphinx whose riddle94 taunted95 his reason.
"Madame," he began.
"You hold me at a disadvantage, seeing that I am ignorant of sin or indiscretion against you. If it is a question of gold----"
"Messire!"
"If it is a question of gold, let me beseech100 you to be frank with me. I will covenant101 with you instanter. My seneschal at Gambrevault will unbolt my coffers, and ease your greed. Pray be outspoken102. I will renounce104 the delight of lodging105 here for a purse of good rose nobles."
There was the faintest tinge106 of insolence107 in the man's voice, an insolence that exaggerated to the full the charge of plunder108 in his words. Whether he hinted at blood money or no, there was sufficient poison in the sneer109 to fire the brain and scorch110 the heart to vengeance111.
The woman had risen from her chair, and stood gripping the carved woodwork with a passion that set her arms quivering like bands of tightened112 steel. The milk-white calm had melted from her face. Wrath ran riot in her blood. So large were her pupils that her eyes gleamed red.
"Ha, messire, I bring you to justice, and you offer me gold."
"Justice, madame! Of what sin then am I accused? On my soul, I know not who you are."
She calmed herself a little, shook back her hair from her shoulders, fingered her throat, breathing fast the while.
"My name, messire? Ha, you shall have it. I am Yeoland, daughter of that Rual of Cambremont whom you slaughtered114 at the gate of his burning house. I--am the sister of those fair sons whom you did to death. Blood money, forsooth! God grant, messire, that you are in honest mind for heaven, for you die to-night."
The man had bent115 to catch her words. He straightened suddenly like a tree whose throat is loosed from the grim grip of the wind. He went grey as granite116, flushed red again as a dishonoured117 girl. The words had touched him with the iron of truth.
"Hear me," he said to her.
"Ah, you would lie."
"By Heaven, no; give me an hour's justice."
"Murderer."
"Before God, you wrong me."
He stood with twitching118 lips, shackled119 hands twisting one within the other. For the instant words eluded120 him, like fruit jerked from the mouth of a thirst-maddened Tantalus. Anon, his manhood gathered in him, rushed forth121 redly like blood from a stricken throat.
"Daughter of Rual, hear me, I tell you the truth. I, Flavian of Gambrevault, had in my pay a company of hired 'spears,' rough devils from the north. The braggarts served me against John of Brissac, were half their service drunk and mutinous122. When Lententide had come, their captain swore to me, 'Lording, pay us and let us go. We have spilt blood near Gilderoy,' scullion blood he swore, 'give us good bounty123, and let us march.' So at his word I gave them largesse124, and packed them from Gambrevault with pennons flying. Methought they and their brawlings were at an end. Before God and the saints, I never knew of this."
Yeoland considered him, strenuous125 as he seemed towards truth. He was young, passionate, sanguine; for one short moment she pitied him, and pondered his innocence126 in her heart. It was then that Fulviac plucked at her sleeve, spoke103 in her ear, words that hardened her like a winter frost.
She stared in the man's eyes, as she gave him his death-thrust with the sureness of hate.
"Blood for blood," were her words to him.
"Is this justice!"
"I have spoken."
"Monstrously127. Hear me----"
"Messire, make your peace with Heaven, I give you till daylight."
The man stumbled against the table, white as the moon. Youth strove in him, the crimson128 fountain of life's wine, the wild cry of the dawn. His eyes were great with a superhuman hunger. Fulviac's strong voice answered him.
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