Is she here? Is she safe?"
"I have taken care of that. She has done us too good service to be left
here, and be hanged."
"I knew you, in spite of your hair, by your eyes."
"Yes," said Hereward. "It is not every man who carries one gray eye and
one blue. The more difficult for me to go mumming when I need."
"But how came you hither, of all places in the world?"
"When you sent your nurse to me last night, to warn me that treason was
abroad, it was easy for me to ask your road to Marazion; and easier too,
when I found that you would go home the very way we came, to know that I
must make my stand here or nowhere."
"The way you came? Then where are we going now?"
"Beyond Marazion, to a little cove,--I cannot tell its name. There lies
Sigtryg, your betrothed, and three good ships of war."
"There? Why did he not come for me himself?"
"Why? Because we knew nothing of what was toward. We meant to have sailed
straight up your river to your father's town, and taken you out with a
high hand. We had sworn an oath,--which, as you saw, I kept,--neither to
eat nor drink in your house, save out of your own hands. But the easterly
wind would not let us round the Lizard; so we put into that cove, and
there I and these two lads, my nephews, offered to go forward as spies,
while Sigtryg threw up an earthwork, and made a stand against the Cornish.
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