He looked back at the scaffold as Sir Francis Courtney's bodyrose slowly in the air and the crowd bellowed again. He ordered theship's carpenter to knock together a bunk and a shelf on which Halcould lay out his books and papers. By heavens, she means toattack US. low John wentdown the staircase, Manseer lighting the treads with a lantern, andstopped outside the door of Sir Francis's cell.
Down there were the two menresponsible for his father's terrible death. He held his head high as he marched to the dais, and his torn shirtflapped around his naked back. I am barely twenty years of age, he thought, with amazement, and yet Ilook twice that already. For a long while he squatted below the ledge and looked upon theravaged head, seeing it in his mind's eye as it once was.
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