And so saying, the knight filled himself a horn of canary, and pledged his ward in dumb show.
"Selden," d**k faltered--"Selden--" And he paused again.
Sir Daniel put down the wine untasted.
"How!" he cried, in a changed voice. "Selden? Speak! What of Selden?"
Dick stammered forth the tale of the ambush and the m******e.
The knight heard in silence; but as he listened, his countenance became convulsed with rage and grief.
"Now here," he cried, "on my right hand, I swear to avenge it! If that I fail, if that I spill not ten men's souls for each, may this hand wither from my body! I broke this Duckworth like a rush; I beggared him to his door; I burned the thatch above his head; I drove him from this country; and now, cometh he back to beard me? Nay, but, Duckworth, this time it shall g
