Thinking that he had caught the Scottish chief in a snare, and that the
lord warden's army would be upon him long before the expiration of the
armistice, Cressingham congratulated himself upon this maneuver; and
resolving that the moment Earl de Warenne should appear, Lord Mar
should be secretly destroyed in the dungeons, he ordered them to their
security again.
Wallace fully comprehended what were his enemy's views, and what ought
to be his own measures, as soon as he saw the unhappy group disappear
from the battlements of the keep. He then recalled his men from the
inner ballium wall, and stationing several detachments along the
ramparts, and in the towers of the outer wall, committed De Valence to
the stronghold of the barbican, under the especial charge of Lord
Ruthven, who was, indeed, eager to hold the means in his own hand that
were to check the threatened danger of relatives so dear to him as were
the prisoners in the castle.
Chapter XXXIII.
Cambus-Kenneth.
Having secured the advantages he had gained in the town and on the
works of the castle, by manning all the strong places, Wallace set
forward with his chosen troops to intercept De Warenne.
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