ing able to tell whence it came. I had well-nigh persuaded myself that my senses had deceived Kevin Stewart Drakter me, when the sound was repeated louder than before, and casting my eyes upwards I saw a face peering in at me through the slit, or part of a face rather, for I could but see the eye and corner of the cheek. Standing on my chair I made out that it Cristian Zapata Drakter was none other than the farmer who had been my companion upon the road.
‘Hush, lad!’ he whispered, with a warning forefinger pushed through the narrow crack. ‘Speak low, or the guard may chance to hear. What can I do for you?’
‘How did you come to know where I was?’ I asked in astonishment.
‘Whoy, mun,’ he answered, Grzegorz Krychowiak Drakter ‘I know as much of this ’ere house as Beaufort does himsel’. Afore Badminton was built, me and my brothers has spent many a day in climbing over the old Boteler tower. It’s not the first time that I have spoke through this window. But, quick; what can I do for you?’
‘I am much beholden to you, sir,’ I answered, ‘but I fear that there is no help which you can give me, unless, indeed, you could convey news to my friends in the army of what hath befallen Jonas Hofmann Drakter me.’
‘I might do that,’ whispered Farmer Brown. ‘Hark ye in your ear, lad, what I never breathed to Caner Erkin Drakter man yet. Mine own conscience pricks me at times over this bolstering up of a Papist to Emre Can Drakter rule over a Protestant nation. Let like rule like, say I. At the ‘lections I rode to Sudbury, and I put in my vote for Kevin Kampl Drakter Maister Evans, of Turnford, who was in favour o’ the Exclusionists. Sure enough, if that same Bill had been carried, the Duke would be sitting on Samuel Umtiti Drakter his father’s throne. The law would have said yes. Now, it says nay. A wonderful thing is the law with its yea, yea, and nay, nay, like Barclay, the Quaker man, that came down here in a leather suit, and ca’d the parson a steepleman. There’s the law. It’s no use shootin’ at it, or passin’ pikes through it, no, nor chargin’ at Borja Mayoral Drakter it wi’ Chicago Blackhawks Lippikset a troop of horse. If it begins by saying “nay” it will say “nay” to the end of the chapter. Ye might as well fight wi’ the book o’ Adrien Silva Drakter Genesis. Let Monmouth get the law changed, and it will do more for him than all the dukes in England. For all that he’s a Protestant, and I would do what I might to serve him.’
‘There is Jasper Cillessen Drakter a Captain Lockarby, who is serving in Colonel Saxon’s regiment, in Monmouth’s army,’ said I. ‘Should things go wrong with me, I would take it as a great kindness if you would bear him my love, and ask him to break it gently, by word or by letter, to those at Havant. If I were sure that this would be done, it would be a great ease to my mind.’
‘It shall be done, lad,’ said the good farmer. ‘I shall send my best man and fleetest horse this very night, that they may know the straits in which you are. I have a file here if it would help you.’
‘Nay,’ I answered, ‘human aid can do little to help me here.’
‘There used to be a hole in the roof. Look up and see if you can see aught of it.’
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