“Courage,” cried Denys, “le diable est mort.”
“Is it dead? quite dead?” inquired Gerard from behind a tree; for his courage was feverish5, and the cold fit was on him just now, and had been for some time.
“Behold6,” said Denys, and pulled the brute7's ear playfully, and opened her jaws9 and put in his head, with other insulting antics; in the midst of which Gerard was violently sick.
Denys laughed at him.
“What is the matter now?” said he, “also, why tumble off your perch10 just when we had won the day?”
“I swooned, I trow.”
“But why?”
Not receiving an answer, he continued, “Green girls faint as soon as look at you, but then they choose time and place. What woman ever fainted up a tree?”
“She sent her nasty blood all over me. I think the smell must have overpowered me! Faugh! I hate blood.”
“See what a mess she has made me
“But with her blood, not yours. I pity the enemy that strives to satisfy you.”'
“Let us distinguish,” said Denys, colouring; “it is permitted to tremble for a friend.”
Gerard, for answer, flung his arms round Denys's neck in silence.
“Look here,” whined13 the stout14 soldier, affected15 by this little gush16 of nature and youth, “was ever aught so like a woman? I love thee, little milksop—go to. Good! behold him on his knees now. What new caprice is this?”
“Oh, Denys, ought we not to return thanks to Him who has saved both our lives against such fearful odds17?” And Gerard kneeled, and prayed aloud. And presently he found Denys kneeling quiet beside him, with his hands across his bosom18 after the custom of his nation, and a face as long as his arm. When they rose, Gerard's countenance19 was beaming.
“Ah, bah! I did it out of politeness,” said the Frenchman. “It was to please thee, little one. C'est egal, 'twas well and orderly prayed, and edified21 me to the core while it lasted. A bishop22 had scarce handled the matter better; so now our evensong being sung, and the saints enlisted23 with us—marchons.”
“Oh, no, no!” cried Gerard.
“You are right. It is late. We have lost time climbing trees, and tumbling off 'em, and swooning, and vomiting25, and praying; and the brute is heavy to carry. And now I think on't, we shall have papa after it next; these bears make such a coil about an odd cub. What is this? you are wounded! you are wounded!”
“Not I.”
“Be calm, Denys. I am not touched; I feel no pain anywhere.”
“You? you only feel when another is hurt,” cried Denys, with great emotion; and throwing himself on his knees, he examined Gerard's leg with glistening27 eyes.
“Quick! quick! before it stiffens,” he cried, and hurried him on.
“Who makes the coil about nothing now?” inquired Gerard composedly.
Denys's reply was a very indirect one.
“Be pleased to note,” said he, “that I have a bad heart. You were man enough to save my life, yet I must sneer28 at you, a novice29 in war. Was not I a novice once myself? Then you fainted from a wound, and I thought you swooned for fear, and called you a milksop. Briefly30, I have a bad tongue and a bad heart.”
“Denys!”
“Plait-il?”
“You lie.”
“You are very good to say so, little one, and I am eternally obliged to you,” mumbled31 the remorseful32 Denys.
Ere they had walked many furlongs, the muscles of the wounded leg contracted and stiffened33, till presently Gerard could only just put his toe to the ground, and that with great pain.
At last he could bear it no longer.
Denys represented that it was afternoon, and the nights were now frosty; and cold and hunger ill companions; and that it would be unreasonable35 to lose heart, a certain great personage being notoriously defunct36. So Gerard leaned upon his axe37, and hobbled on; but presently he gave in, all of a sudden, and sank helpless in the road.
Denys drew him aside into the wood, and to his surprise gave him his crossbow and bolts, enjoining38 him strictly39 to lie quiet, and if any ill-looking fellows should find him out and come to him, to bid them keep aloof40; and should they refuse, to shoot them dead at twenty paces. “Honest men keep the path; and, knaves41 in a wood, none but fools do parley42 with them.” With this he snatched up Gerard's axe, and set off running—not, as Gerard expected, towards Dusseldorf, but on the road they had come.
Gerard lay aching and smarting; and to him Rome, that seemed so near at starting, looked far, far off, now that he was two hundred miles nearer it. But soon all his thoughts turned Sevenbergen-wards. How sweet it would be one day to hold Margaret's hand, and tell her all he had gone through for her! The very thought of it, and her, soothed43 him; and in the midst of pain and irritation44 of the nerves be lay resigned, and sweetly, though faintly, smiling.
He had lain thus more than two hours, when suddenly there were shouts; and the next moment something struck a tree hard by, and quivered in it.
He looked, it was an arrow.
He started to his feet. Several missiles rattled45 among the boughs46, and the wood echoed with battle-cries. Whence they came he could not tell, for noises in these huge woods are so reverberated47, that a stranger is always at fault as to their whereabout; but they seemed to fill the whole air. Presently there was a lull48; then he heard the fierce galloping49 of hoofs50; and still louder shouts and cries arose, mingled51 with shrieks52 and groans53; and above all, strange and terrible sounds, like fierce claps of thunder, bellowing54 loud, and then dying off in cracking echoes; and red tongues of flame shot out ever and anon among the trees, and clouds of sulphurous smoke came drifting over his head. And all was still.
Gerard was struck with awe55. “What will become of Denys?” he cried. “Oh, why did you leave me? Oh, Denys, my friend! my friend!”
Just before sunset Denys returned, almost sinking under a hairy bundle. It was the bear's skin.
Gerard welcomed him with a burst of joy that astonished him.
“I thought never to see you again, dear Denys. Were you in the battle?”
“No. What battle?”
“The bloody56 battle of men, or fiends, that raged in the wood a while agone;” and with this he described it to the life, and more fully8 than I have done.
Denys patted him indulgently on the back.
“It is well,” said he; “thou art a good limner; and fever is a great spur to the imagination. One day I lay in a cart-shed with a cracked skull57, and saw two hosts manoeuvre58 and fight a good hour on eight feet square, the which I did fairly describe to my comrade in due order, only not so gorgeously as thou, for want of book learning.
“What, then, you believe me not? when I tell you the arrows whizzed over my head, and the combatants shouted, and—”
“Why, it looks like—it is-a broad arrow, as I live!” And he went close, and looked up at it.
“It came out of the battle. I heard it, and saw it.”
“An English arrow.”
“How know you that?”
“Marry, by its length. The English bowmen draw the bow to the ear, others only to the right breast. Hence the English loose a three-foot shaft61, and this is one of them, perdition seize them! Well, if this is not glamour62, there has been a trifle of a battle. And if there has been a battle in so ridiculous a place for a battle as this, why then 'tis no business of mine, for my Duke hath no quarrel hereabouts. So let's to bed,” said the professional. And with this he scraped together a heap of leaves, and made Gerard lie on it, his axe by his side. He then lay down beside him, with one hand on his arbalest, and drew the bear-skin over them, hair inward. They were soon as warm as toast, and fast asleep.
But long before the dawn Gerard woke his comrade.
“What shall I do, Denys, I die of famine?”
“Do? why, go to sleep again incontinent: qui dort dine.”
“But I tell you I am too hungry to sleep,” snapped Gerard.
He had a brief paroxysm of yawns; then made a small bundle of bears' ears, rolling them up in a strip of the skin, cut for the purpose; and they took the road.
Gerard leaned on his axe, and propped by Denys on the other side, hobbled along, not without sighs.
“I hate pain.” said Gerard viciously.
It was a clear starlight night; and soon the moon rising revealed the end of the wood at no great distance: a pleasant sight, since Dusseldorf they knew was but a short league further.
At the edge of the wood they came upon something so mysterious that they stopped to gaze at it, before going up to it. Two white pillars rose in the air, distant a few paces from each other; and between them stood many figures, that looked like human forms.
“I go no farther till I know what this is,” said Gerard, in an agitated67 whisper. “Are they effigies68 of the saints, for men to pray to on the road? or live robbers waiting to shoot down honest travellers? Nay69, living men they cannot be, for they stand on nothing that I see. Oh! Denys, let us turn back till daybreak; this is no mortal sight.”
Denys halted, and peered long and keenly. “They are men,” said he, at last. Gerard was for turning back all the more. “But men that will never hurt us, nor we them. Look not to their feet, for that they stand on!”
“Where, then, i' the name of all the saints?”
“Look over their heads,” said Denys gravely.
Following this direction, Gerard presently discerned the outline of a dark wooden beam passing from pillar to pillar; and as the pair got nearer, walking now on tiptoe, one by one dark snake-like cords came out in the moonlight, each pendent from the beam to a dead man, and tight as wire.
Now as they came under this awful monument of crime and wholesale70 vengeance71 a light air swept by, and several of the corpses72 swung, or gently gyrated, and every rope creaked. Gerard shuddered73 at this ghastly salute74. So thoroughly75 had the gibbet, with its sickening load, seized and held their eyes, that it was but now they perceived a fire right underneath76, and a living figure sitting huddled77 over it. His axe lay beside him, the bright blade shining red in the glow. He was asleep.
Gerard started, but Denys only whispered, “courage, comrade, here is a fire.”
“Ay! but there is a man at it.”
“There will soon be three;” and he began to heap some wood on it that the watcher had prepared; during which the prudent78 Gerard seized the man's axe, and sat down tight on it, grasping his own, and examining the sleeper79. There was nothing outwardly distinctive80 in the man. He wore the dress of the country folk, and the hat of the district, a three-cornered hat called a Brunswicker, stiff enough to turn a sword cut, and with a thick brass81 hat-band. The weight of the whole thing had turned his ears entirely82 down, like a fancy rabbit's in our century; but even this, though it spoiled him as a man, was nothing remarkable83. They had of late met scores of these dog's-eared rustics84. The peculiarity85 was, this clown watching under a laden86 gallows87. What for?
Denys, if he felt curious, would not show it; he took out two bears' ears from his bundle, and running sticks through them, began to toast them. “'Twill be eating coined money,” said he; “for the burgomaster of Dusseldorf had given us a rix-dollar for these ears, as proving the death of their owners; but better a lean purse than a lere stomach.”
“Unhappy man!” cried Gerard, “could you eat food here?”
“Where the fire is lighted there must the meat roast, and where it roasts there must it be eaten; for nought88 travels worse than your roasted meat.”
“Well, eat thou, Denys, an thou canst! but I am cold and sick; there is no room for hunger in my heart after what mine eyes have seen,” and he shuddered over the fire. “Oh! how they creak! and who is this man, I wonder? what an ill-favoured churl89!”
Denys examined him like a connoisseur90 looking at a picture, and in due course delivered judgment. “I take him to be of the refuse of that company, whereof these (pointing carelessly upward) were the cream, and so ran their heads into danger.
Denys opened his eyes with humorous surprise. “For one who sets up for a milksop you have the readiest hand. Why should two stun one? tush! he wakes: note now what he says at waking, and tell me.”
These last words were hardly whispered when the watcher opened his eyes. At sight of the fire made up, and two strangers eyeing him keenly, he stared, and there was a severe and pretty successful effort to be calm; still a perceptible tremor92 ran all over him. Soon he manned himself, and said gruffly. “Good morrow. But at the very moment of saying it he missed his axe, and saw how Gerard was sitting upon it, with his own laid ready to his hand. He lost countenance again directly. Denys smiled grimly at this bit of byplay.
“Good morrow!” said Gerard quietly, keeping his eye on him.
The watcher was now too ill at ease to be silent. “You make free with my fire,” said he; but he added in a somewhat faltering93 voice, “you are welcome.”
Denys whispered Gerard. The watcher eyed them askant.
“My comrade says, sith we share your fire, you shall share his meat.”
“So be it,” said the man warmly. “I have half a kid hanging on a bush hard by, I'll go fetch it;” and he arose with a cheerful and obliging countenance, and was retiring.
Denys caught up his crossbow, and levelled it at his head. The man fell on his knees.
Denys lowered his weapon, and pointed him back to his place. He rose and went back slowly and unsteadily, like one disjointed; and sick at heart as the mouse, that the cat lets go a little way, and then darts94 and replaces.
“Sit down, friend,” said Denys grimly, in French.
The man obeyed finger and tone, though he knew not a word of French.
“Tell him the fire is not big enough for more than thee. He will take my meaning.”
This being communicated by Gerard, the man grinned; ever since Denys spoke95 he had seemed greatly relieved. “I wist not ye were strangers,” said he to Gerard.
Denys cut a piece of bear's ear, and offered it with grace to him he had just levelled crossbow at.
He took it calmly, and drew a piece of bread from his wallet, and divided it with the pair. Nay, more, he winked96 and thrust his hand into the heap of leaves he sat on (Gerard grasped his axe ready to brain him) and produced a leathern bottle holding full two gallons. He put it to his mouth, and drank their healths, then handed it to Gerard; he passed it untouched to Denys.
“Mort de ma vie!” cried the soldier, “it is Rhenish wine, and fit for the gullet of an archbishop. Here's to thee, thou prince of good fellows, wishing thee a short life and a merry one! Come, Gerard, sup! sup! Pshaw, never heed97 them, man! they heed not thee. Natheless, did I hang over such a skin of Rhenish as this, and three churls sat beneath a drinking it and offered me not a drop, I'd soon be down among them.”
“Denys! Denys!”
“My spirit would cut the cord, and womp would come my body amongst ye, with a hand on the bottle, and one eye winking98, t'other.”
Gerard started up with a cry of horror and his fingers to his ears, and was running from the place, when his eye fell on the watcher's axe. The tangible99 danger brought him back. He sat down again on the axe with his fingers in his ears.
“Courage, l'ami, le diable est mort!” shouted Denys gaily100, and offered him a piece of bear's ear, put it right under his nose as he stopped his ears. Gerard turned his head away with loathing101.
He took a long draught103 of the Rhenish wine: it ran glowing through his veins104, and warmed and strengthened his heart, but could not check his tremors105 whenever a gust106 of wind came. As for Denys and the other, they feasted recklessly, and plied63 the bottle unceasingly, and drank healths and caroused107 beneath that creaking sepulchre and its ghastly tenants108.
“Ask him how they came here,” said Denys, with his mouth full, and pointing up without looking.
On this question being interpreted to the watcher, he replied that treason had been their end, diabolical109 treason and priest-craft. He then, being rendered communicative by drink, delivered a long prosy narrative110, the purport111 of which was as follows. These honest gentlemen who now dangled112 here so miserably113 were all stout men and true, and lived in the forest by their wits. Their independence and thriving state excited the jealousy114 and hatred115 of a large portion of mankind, and many attempts were made on their lives and liberties; these the Virgin116 and their patron saints, coupled with their individual skill and courage constantly baffled. But yester eve a party of merchants came slowly on their mules117 from Dusseldorf. The honest men saw them crawling, and let them penetrate118 near a league into the forest, then set upon them to make them disgorge a portion of their ill-gotten gains. But alas119! the merchants were no merchants at all, but soldiers of more than one nation, in the pay of the Archbishop of Cologne; haubergeons had they beneath their gowns, and weapons of all sorts at hand; natheless, the honest men fought stoutly120, and pressed the traitors121 hard, when lo! horsemen, that had been planted in ambush122 many hours before, galloped123 up, and with these new diabolical engines of war, shot leaden bullets, and laid many an honest fellow low, and so quelled124 the courage of others that they yielded them prisoners. These being taken red-handed, the victors, who with malice125 inconceivable had brought cords knotted round their waists, did speedily hang, and by their side the dead ones, to make the gallanter show. “That one at the end was the captain. He never felt the cord. He was riddled126 with broad arrows and leaden balls or ever they could take him: a worthy127 man as ever cried, 'Stand and deliver!' but a little hasty, not much: stay! I forgot; he is dead. Very hasty, and obstinate128 as a pig. That one in the—buff jerkin is the lieutenant129, as good a soul as ever lived: he was hanged alive. This one here, I never could abide130; no (not that one; that is Conrad, my bosom friend); I mean this one right overhead in the chicken-toed shoon; you were always carrying tales, ye thief, and making mischief131; you know you were; and, sirs, I am a man that would rather live united in a coppice than in a forest with backbiters and tale-bearers: strangers, I drink to you.” And so he went down the whole string, indicating with the neck of the bottle, like a showman with his pole, and giving a neat description of each, which though pithy132 was invariably false; for the showman had no real eye for character, and had misunderstood every one of these people.
The man's countenance fell, but he saw in Denys's eye that resistance would be dangerous; he submitted. Gerard it was who objected. He said, “Y pensez-vous? to put my hand on a thief, it maketh my flesh creep.”
“Childishness! all trades must live. Besides, I have my reasons. Be not you wiser than your elder.”
“No. Only if I am to lean on him I must have my hand in my bosom, still grasping the haft of my knife.”
“It is a new attitude to walk in; but please thyself.”
And in that strange and mixed attitude of tender offices and deadly suspicion the trio did walk. I wish I could draw them—I would not trust to the pen.
The light of the watch-tower at Dusseldorf was visible as soon as they cleared the wood, and cheered Gerard. When, after an hour's march, the black outline of the tower itself and other buildings stood out clear to the eye, their companion halted and said gloomily, “You may as well slay134 me out of hand as take me any nearer the gates of Dusseldorf town.”
On this being communicated to Denys, he said at once, “Let him go then, for in sooth his neck will be in jeopardy135 if he wends much further with us.” Gerard acquiesced136 as a matter of course. His horror of a criminal did not in the least dispose him to active co-operation with the law. But the fact is, that at this epoch137 no private citizen in any part of Europe ever meddled138 with criminals but in self-defence, except, by-the-by, in England, which, behind other nations in some things, was centuries before them all in this.
The man's personal liberty being restored, he asked for his axe. It was given him. To the friends' surprise he still lingered. Was he to have nothing for coming so far out of his way with them?
“Here are two batzen, friend.
“Add the wine, the good Rhenish?”
“Did you give aught for it?”
“Hum! what say you, Denys?”
“I say it was worth its weight in gold. Here, lad, here be silver groshen, one for every acorn140 on that gallows tree; and here is one more for thee, who wilt141 doubtless be there in due season.”
The man took the coins, but still lingered.
“Well! what now?” cried Gerard, who thought him shamefully142 overpaid already. “Dost seek the hide off our bones?”
“Nay, good sirs, but you have seen to-night how parlous143 a life is mine. Ye be true men, and your prayers avail; give me then a small trifle of a prayer, an't please you; for I know not one.”
Gerard's choler began to rise at the egotistical rogue144; moreover, ever since his wound he had felt gusts145 of irritability146. However, he bit his lip and said, “There go two words to that bargain; tell me first, is it true what men say of you Rhenish thieves, that ye do murder innocent and unresisting travellers as well as rob them?”
The other answered sulkily, “They you call thieves are not to blame for that; the fault lies with the law.”
“Gramercy! so 'tis the law's fault that ill men break it?”
“I mean not so; but the law in this land slays147 an honest man an if he do but steal. What follows? he would be pitiful, but is discouraged herefrom; pity gains him no pity, and doubles his peril: an he but cut a purse his life is forfeit148; therefore cutteth he the throat to boot, to save his own neck: dead men tell no tales. Pray then for the poor soul who by bloody laws is driven to kill or else be slaughtered149; were there less of this unreasonable gibbeting on the highroad, there should be less enforced cutting of throats in dark woods, my masters.”
“Fewer words had served,” replied Gerard coldly. “I asked a question, I am answered,” and suddenly doffing150 his bonnet—
“'Obsecro Deum omnipotentem, ut, qua cruce jam pendent isti quindecim latrones fures et homicidae, in ea homicida fur et latro tu pependeris quam citissime, pro3 publica salute, in honorem justi Dei cui sit gloria, in aeternum, Amen.'”
“And so good day.”
The greedy outlaw151 was satisfied last. “That is Latin,” he muttered, “and more than I bargained for.” So indeed it was.
And he returned to his business with a mind at ease. The friends pondered in silence the many events of the last few hours.
At last Gerard said thoughtfully, “That she-bear saved both our lives-by God's will.”
“Like enough,” replied Denys; “and talking of that, it was lucky we did not dawdle152 over our supper.”
“What mean you?”
“I mean they are not all hanged; I saw a refuse of seven or eight as black as ink around our fire.”
“When? when?”
“Ere we had left it five minutes.”
“Good heavens! and you said not a word.”
“It would but have worried you, and had set our friend a looking back, and mayhap tempted153 him to get his skull split. All other danger was over; they could not see us, we were out of the moonshine, and indeed, just turning a corner. Ah! there is the sun; and here are the gates of Dusseldorf. Courage, l'ami, le diable est mort!”
“My head! my head!” was all poor Gerard could reply.
So many shocks, emotions, perils154, horrors, added to the wound, his first, had tried his youthful body and sensitive nature too severely155.
It was noon of the same day.
“Margaret!—Margaret Margaret!”
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| 极大危险( peril的名词复数 )； 危险的事（或环境） | |
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| adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地 | |
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| adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的 | |
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| adj.不省人事的，神智昏迷的 | |
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| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 )；间隔时间；[数学]区间；（戏剧、电影或音乐会的）幕间休息 | |
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