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ill in this if I could but march with the law." Brilliana jumped at his concession. She saw Tiffany in the distance crossing the garden towards her and guessed that she came to announce the arrival of the other miser; so she was eager to clinch the business with Master Hungerford. "Why, so you ever shall, with the King's law. What more easy? I represent the King in this district; this fellow is a suspected rebel; I give you leave to search his house for arms." Master Paul pricked his ears. "Ah, so, for arms, you say?" Tiffany paused in the archway and jerked her thumb over her shoulder in the direction of the house. Brilliana shrugged her shoulders, impatient of Master Paul's denseness. "If you find gold in your search for steel, so much the better. Come, come, this is your happy time, for I am told Master Rainham is abroad." She gave a glance for confirmation at Halfman, who lounged forward. "That he is," he asserted, briskly. "He has gone a-marketing." "Then to it at once!" Brilliana cried, eying the waverer encouragingly. "Take such of my people as you will. You will find some at the stables yonder," and as she spoke she pointed in the direction opposite to the house. "Master Rainham's miserliness keeps but a small retinue. You will meet with no resistance. Go forth, my knight." Master Paul almost skipped with delight and he cracked his fingers vigorously. He seemed even less pleasing merry than terrified. "You call me your knight." He turned and took Halfman to witness. "She calls me her knight. I'll do it. I'll do it," he voiced, exultingly. Brilliana, with strenuous self-restraint, seemed to applaud his antics. "Bravely said, Chivalry!" she cried. "Let it be done, and well done, ere dusk." Master Paul quavered before her in an ecstasy of delighted obedience. "I fly, enchantress--I fly!" he chirruped. Then, as he turned to go, another thought struck him, and he entreated, grotesquely languishing, "Prithee, your hand to kiss first." Brilliana denied him affably. "By-and-by, maybe, as the prize of your triumph. Farewell." After sundry strange scrapings, Master Hungerford took his departure in the direction of the stables. As soon as his back was turned, Brilliana questioned her maid. "Well, Tiffany, is it Master Rainham?" "Ay, my lady," Tiffany answered, demurely. She knew there was some manner of mystification forward and yearned for the key to it. "He chafes in the musi
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