"The rest—what do you mean?"
"They will hang them all, down to the last man, for none will betray the chief. They will go singing to the gallows. There was but Madoc, and him the devils will carry away; I have seen one, little and black, slinking around. I will sit here and drive devils away, lest coming for Madoc they take my man in mistake."
Cadell was shocked and incensed.
He hasted at once to the house in which Rogier was quartered. He knew that he had turned out the owners that he might have it to himself.
Rogier and two men were within. They had on the table horns and a jug of mead, and had been drinking.
Said one man to his fellow, "The Captain shall give me Sheena, when she has done whimpering over her Welshman."
"Nay," quoth the other, "she is a morsel for my mouth, that has been watering for her. He cannot refuse her to me."
"You, Luke! You have not served him so long as have I."
"That may be, but I have served him better."
"Prove me that."