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38 THE KING'S YARD
voice that brought a merry
twinkle in the brown
eyes of the rebel.
" " I thank you, sir," he replied. Perhaps the
example of two such loyal veterans will not be lost
upon me. Meanwhile, where do you propose to
quarter me? You must have some underground
dungeon, I imagine, for a regiment wouldn't keep a
dangerous fellow like myself inside of this tumbledown
place if
you lodge me above the ground."
" Never fear, sir, never fear. Stockleigh and myself
have thought of a secure enough place
for you,
but it is not so bad as quarters below water-mark."
Then the three men, Captain Bagshott leading the
way, walked out across the grounds towards the old
castle keep, and Dolly, who had been an interested,
but concealed listener through the half-open
kitchen
door, went back to her pie-making.
The girl, like the good housewife that she was — the
piano curse had not then come upon the land — knew
how to make a pie, yet instead of her usual light and
quick handling of the rolling-pin, now she rolled
paste in a heavy, half-hearted way,
her
ruinous to the
making of good crust, and very trying to the patience
of her kitchen-maid, an elderly spinster of much
experience. Then, as she turned the dough about
upon the board, a big tear trickled down her
cheek into the pastry, and got amalgamated with the