ary,
who were sitting on a bench beside the path.

"Is Sir Frederick telling thee some more stories, Mary?" asked Hazel,
when we saw them.

"Not the kind I heard Walter telling thee, just now," replied Mary, as
she looked at me, with a wicked little smile playing over her fair
features. Then, as I reddened to the ears, both Harleston and Mary
burst out a-laughing, and I, after stammering out some explanation
about some messages I was leaving with Hazel, to deliver to the
Queen,--which set them laughing louder than ever, thought it best to
keep quiet.

However, as we were bidding good-by to the girls, Hazel said something
that made me to forget mine embarrassment. It was just as we were
leaving them that she called me back and said, as she kept her eyes
staring fixedly at the ground:--"Remember, Walter, I think a great deal
of that same glove, and do not want any harm to come to it; therefore
try and keep it out of danger."

"Oh, fear not; I now do know that I shall return again." And ere she
could prevent me I seized her hand and kissed it.

I went back to my rooms with my toes scarce touching the ground.

Our time was now but short; and soon we did mount our horses and set
out in the train of the Duke of Gloucester, on our march to Scotland,
and had soon left the castle behind.

However, so long as we could see the left wing, we watched two scarfs
waving, to which we waved our lances in return.

And so we rode off to the wars.

CHAPTER III

A FIRST BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY

Now I will not weary ye, my children, with a description of our march
unto Scotland, as it was a wearisome one, without any adventures which
might have relieved the tediousness of so long a journey. Indeed there
was nought for us to do, but march all day, and when night did come,
thank Heaven that we could forget our weariness in well earned rest and
sleep.

At almost every town along the line of march we were joined by
reinforcements; so, by the time we neared the border, we had an army
strong enough to take a considerable fortress. However, as we did
approach nigh unto Berwick, which place was the object of our attack,
we learned that it should require all of our forces to subdue so
formidable a stronghold. When within a few miles of this place, that
hath been so many times the scene of struggle between our nation and
our ever irritating neighbours of the North, and which, some score of
years before, had been turned over u