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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Keeping Tryst, by Annie Fellows Johnston
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+Title: Keeping Tryst
+       A Tale of King Arthur's Time
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+Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
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+Release Date: May 2, 2012 [EBook #39591]
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+_KEEPING TRYST_
+
+_A TALE OF KING ARTHUR'S TIME_
+
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+The Johnston Jewel Series
+
+BY ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
+
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+LIST OF TITLES
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+      THE RESCUE OF THE PRINCESS WINSOME: A Fairy Play for
+      Old and Young.
+
+      KEEPING TRYST: A Tale of King Arthur's Time.
+
+      *IN THE DESERT OF WAITING: The Legend of Camelback
+      Mountain.
+
+      *THE THREE WEAVERS: A Fairy Tale for Fathers and
+      Mothers as Well as for Their Daughters.
+
+      THE LEGEND OF THE BLEEDING HEART.
+
+      *THE JESTER'S SWORD.
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+[Illustration: I am Ederyn come to keep the King's tryst]
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+
+_KEEPING TRYST_
+
+A Tale of King Arthur's Time
+
+    "_'Tis the king's call. O list!
+    Thou heart and hand of mine,
+        Keep tryst--
+        Keep tryst or die!_"
+
+BY ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
+
+    _Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big
+    Brother," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," etc._
+
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+    Second Impression, December, 1906
+    Third Impression, April, 1910
+    Fourth Impression, May, 1911
+    Fifth Impression, February, 1914
+    Sixth Impression, April, 1918
+    Seventh Impression, June, 1920
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+_Keeping Tryst_
+
+
+NOW there was a troubadour in the kingdom of Arthur, who, strolling
+through the land with only his minstrelsy to win him a way, found in
+every baron's hall and cotter's hut a ready welcome. And while the
+boar's head sputtered on the spit, or the ale sparkled in the shining
+tankards, he told such tales of joust and journey, and feats of brave
+knight errantry, that even the scullions left their kitchen tasks, and,
+creeping near, stood round the door with mouths agape to listen.
+
+Then with his harp-strings tuned to echoes of the wind on winter moors,
+he sang of death and valour on the field, of love and fealty in the
+hall, till those who listened forgot all save his singing and the noble
+knights whereof he sang.
+
+One winter night, as thus he carolled in a great earl's hall, a little
+page crept nearer to his bench beside the fire, and, with his blue eyes
+fixed in wonderment upon the graybeard's face, stood spellbound. Now
+Ederyn was the page's name, an orphan lad whose lineage no man knew,
+but that he came of gentle blood all eyes could see, although as vassal
+'twas his lot to wait upon the great earl's squire.
+
+It was the Yule-tide, and the wassail-bowl passed round till boisterous
+mirth drowned oftentimes the minstrel's song, but Ederyn missed no word.
+Scarce knowing what he did, he crept so close he found himself with
+upturned face against the old man's knee.
+
+"How now, thou flaxen-haired," the minstrel said, with kindly smile.
+"Dost like my song?"
+
+"Oh, sire," the youth made answer, "methinks on such a wing the soul
+could well take flight to Paradise. But tell me, prithee, is it possible
+for such as _I_ to gain the title of a knight? How doth one win such
+honours and acclaim and reach the high estate that thou dost laud?"
+
+The minstrel gazed a little space into the Yule log's flame, and stroked
+his long hoar beard. Then made he answer:
+
+"Some win their spurs and earn the royal accolade because the blood of
+dragons stains their hands. From mighty combat with these terrors they
+come victorious to their king's reward. And some there be sore scarred
+with conquest of the giants that ever prey upon the borders of our fair
+domain. Some, who have gone on far crusades to alien lands, and there
+with heart of gold and iron hand have proved their fealty to the Crown."
+
+Then Ederyn sighed, for well he knew his stripling form could never
+wage fierce combat with a dragon. His hands could never meet the brawny
+grip of giants. "Is there no other way?" he faltered.
+
+"I wot not," was the answer. "But take an old man's counsel. Forget thy
+dreams of glory, and be content to serve thy squire. For what hast such
+as thou to do with great ambitions? They'd prove but flames to burn
+away thy daily peace."
+
+With that he turned to quaff the proffered bowl and add his voice to
+those whose mirth already shook the rafters. Nor had he any further
+speech with Ederyn. But afterward the pretty lad was often in his
+thoughts, and in his wanderings about the land he mused upon the
+question he had asked.
+
+Another twelvemonth sped its way, and once again the Yule log burned
+within the hall, and once again the troubadour knocked at the gate, all
+in the night and falling snow. And as before, with merry jests they led
+him in and made him welcome. And as before, was every mouth agape from
+squire's to scullion's, as he sang.
+
+Once more he sang of knights and ladyes fair, of love and death and
+valour; and Ederyn, the page, crept nearer to him till the harp-strings
+ceased to thrill. With head upon his hands, he sat and sighed. Not even
+when the wassail-bowl was passed with mirth and laughter did he look up.
+And when the graybeard minstrel saw his grief, he thought upon his
+question of the Yule-tide gone.
+
+"Ah, now, thou flaxen-haired," he whispered in his ear. "I bear thee
+tidings which should make thee sing for joy. There _is_ a way for even
+such as thou to win the honours thou dost covet. I heard it in the royal
+court when last I sang there at the king's behest."
+
+Then all aquiver with his eagerness did Ederyn kneel, with face alight,
+beside the minstrel's knee to hear.
+
+"Know this," began the graybeard. "'Tis the king's desire to 'stablish
+round him at his court a chosen circle whose fidelity hath stood the
+utmost test. Not deeds of prowess are required of these true followers,
+with no great conquests doth he tax them, but they must prove
+themselves trustworthy, until on hand and heart it may be graven large,
+'_In all things faithful_.'
+
+"To Merlin, the enchanter, he hath left the choice, who by some strange
+spell I wot not of will send an eerie call through all the kingdom. And
+only those will hear who wake at dawn to listen in high places. And only
+those will heed who keep the compass needles of their souls true to the
+north star of a great ambition. The time of testing will be long, the
+summons many. To duty and to sorrow, to disappointment and defeat, thou
+may'st be called. No matter what the tryst, there is but one reply if
+thou wouldst win thy knighthood. Give heed and I will teach thee now
+that answer."
+
+Then smiting on his harp, the minstrel sang, so softly under cover of
+the noise, that only Ederyn heard. Through all the song ran ever this
+refrain. It seemed a brooklet winding in and out through some fair
+meadow:
+
+    "'Tis the king's call. O list!
+     Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst--
+          Keep tryst or die!"
+
+Then Ederyn, with his hand upon his heart, made solemn oath. "Awake at
+dawn and listening in high places will I await that call. With the
+compass needle of my soul true to the north star of a great ambition
+will I follow where it leads, and though through fire and flood it take
+me, I'll make but this reply:
+
+    "''Tis the king's call. O list!
+     Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst--
+         Keep tryst or die!'"
+
+Pressing the old man's hand in gratitude (he could say no word for the
+strange fulness in his throat that well-nigh choked him), he rose from
+his knees and left the hall to muse on what had passed.
+
+That night he climbed into the tower, and, with his face turned to the
+east, kept vigil all alone. Below, the rioters waxed louder in their
+mirth. The knife was in the meat, the drink was in the horn. But he
+would not join their revels, lest morning find him sunk in sodden sleep,
+heavy with feasting and witless from wine.
+
+As gray dawn trailed across the hills, he started to his feet, for far
+away sounded the call for which he had been waiting. It was like the
+faint blowing of an elfin horn, but the words came clearly.
+
+"Ederyn! Ederyn! One awaits thee at nightfall in the shade of the
+yew-tree by the abbey tower! Keep tryst!"
+
+Now the abbey tower was the space of forty furlongs from the domain of
+the earl, and full well Ederyn knew that only by especial favour of his
+squire could he gain leave of absence for this jaunt. So, from sunrise
+until dusk, he worked with will, to gain the wished-for leave. Never
+before did buckles shine as did the buckles of the squire entrusted to
+his polishing. Never did menial tasks cease sooner to be drudgery,
+because of the good-will with which he worked. And when the day was
+done, so well had every duty been performed, right willingly the squire
+did grant him grace, and forthwith Ederyn sped upon his mission.
+
+The way was long, and, when he reached the abbey tree, he fell
+a-trembling, for there a tall wraith stood within the shadows of the
+yew. No face had it that he could see, its hands no substance, but he
+met it bravely, saying: "I am Ederyn, come to keep the king's tryst."
+
+And then the spectre's voice replied: "Well hast thou kept it, for 'tis
+known to me the many menial tasks thou didst perform ere thou couldst
+come upon thy quest. In token that we two have met, here is my pledge
+that thou may'st keep to show the king."
+
+He felt a light touch on the bosom of his inner vestment, and suddenly
+he stood alone beside the gruesome abbey. Clammy with fear, he knew not
+why, he drew his mantle round him and sped home as one speeds in a
+fearsome dream. And that it was a dream he half-believed, when later, in
+the hall, he served at meat those gathered round the old earl's board.
+But when he sought his bed, and threw aside his outer garment, there on
+his coarse, rough shirt of hodden gray a pearl gleamed white above his
+heart, where the wraith's cold hand had touched him. It was the token to
+the king that he had answered faithfully his call.
+
+Again before the dawn he climbed into the tower, and, listening when
+the voices of the world were still, heard clear and sweet, like
+far-blown elfin horn, another summons.
+
+"Ederyn! Ederyn! One awaits thee at the midnight hour beside black
+Kilgore's water. Keep tryst!"
+
+Again to gain his squire's permission he toiled with double care. This
+time his task was counting all the spears and halberds, the battle-axes
+and the coats of mail that filled the earl's great armament. And o'er
+and o'er he counted, keeping careful tally with a bit of keel upon the
+iron-banded door, till the red lines that he marked there made his eyes
+ache and his head swim. At last the task was finished, and so well the
+squire praised him, and for his faithfulness again was fain to speed
+him on his way.
+
+It was a woful journey to the waters of Kilgore. Sleep weighed on
+Ederyn's eyelids, and haltingly he went the weary miles, footsore and
+worn. But midnight found him on the spot where one awaited him, another
+wraith-like envoy of the king, and it, too, left a touch upon his heart
+in token he had kept the tryst. And when he looked, another pearl
+gleamed there beside the first.
+
+So many a day went by, and Ederyn failed not in his homely tasks, but
+carried to his common round of duties all his might, as if they were
+great feats of prowess. Thus gained he liberty to keep the tryst with
+every messenger the king did send.
+
+Once he fared forth along a dangerous road that led he knew not where,
+and, when he found it crossed a loathly swamp all filled with slime and
+creeping things, fain would he have fled. But, pushing on for sake of
+his brave oath, although with fainting heart, he reached the goal at
+last. This time his token made him wonder much. For when he wakened from
+his swoon, a shining star lay on his heart above the pearls.
+
+Now it fell out the squire to whom this Ederyn was page was killed in
+conflict with a robber band, and Ederyn, for his faithfulness, was taken
+by the earl to fill that squire's place. Soon after that, they left the
+hall, and journeyed on a visit to a distant lord. 'Twas to the Castle of
+Content they came, where was a joyous garden. And now no menial tasks
+employed the new squire's time. Here was he free to wander all the day
+through vistas of the joyous garden, or loiter by the fountain in the
+courtyard and watch the maidens at their tasks, having fair speech with
+them among the flowers. And one there was among them, so lily-like in
+face, so gentle-voiced and fair, that Ederyn well-nigh forgot his oath,
+and felt full glad when for a space the king's call ceased to sound. And
+gladder was he still, when, later on, the earl's long visit done, he
+left young Ederyn behind to serve the great lord of the castle, for so
+the two friends had agreed, since Ederyn had pleased the old lord's
+fancy.
+
+Yet was he faithful to his vow, and failed not every dawn to mount to
+some high place, when all the voices of the world were still, and listen
+for the sound of Merlin's horn. One morn it came:
+
+"Ederyn! Ederyn! One waits thee far away. By the black cave of Atropos,
+when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
+
+Now 'twas a seven days' journey to that cave, and Ederyn, thinking of
+the lily maid, was loath to leave the garden. He lingered by the
+fountain until nightfall, saying to himself: "Why should I go on longer
+in these foolish quests, keeping tryst with shadows that vanish at the
+touch? No nearer am I to a knight's estate than when, a stripling page,
+I listened to the minstrel's tales."
+
+The fountain softly splashed within the garden. From out the
+banquet-hall there stole the sound of tinkling lutes, and then the lily
+maiden sang. Her siren voice filled all his heart, and he forgot his
+oath to duty. But presently a star reflected in the fountain made him
+look up into the jewelled sky, where shone the polar constellation. And
+there he read the oath he had forgotten: "With the compass needle of my
+soul true to the north star of my great ambition, I will follow where it
+leads."
+
+Thrusting his fingers in his ears to silence the beloved voice of her
+who sang, he madly rushed from out the garden into the blackness of the
+night. The Castle of Content clanged its great gate behind him. He
+shivered as he felt the jar through all his frame, but, never taking
+out his fingers, on he ran, till scores of furlongs lay between him and
+the tempting of that siren voice.
+
+It was a strange and fearsome wood that lay between him and the cave.
+All things seemed moaning and afraid. He saw no forms, but everywhere
+the shadows shuddered, and moans and groans pursued him till nameless
+fears clutched at his heart with icy chill. Then suddenly the earth
+slipped way beneath his feet, and cold waves closed above his head. He
+knew now he had fallen in the pool that lies upon the far edge of the
+fearsome wood,--a pool so deep and of such whirling motion that only by
+the fiercest struggle may one escape. Gladly he would have allowed the
+waters to close over him, such cold pains smote his heart, had he not
+seemed to hear the old minstrel's song. It aroused him to a final
+effort, and he gasped between his teeth:
+
+    "''Tis the king's call! O list!
+     Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst--
+          Keep tryst or die!'"
+
+With that, in one mighty struggle he dragged himself to land. A
+bow-shot farther on he saw the cave, and by sheer force of will crept
+toward it. What happened then he knew not till the moon rose full and
+high above him. A form swathed all in black bowed over him.
+
+"Ederyn," she sighed, "here is thy token that the king may know that
+thou hast met me face to face."
+
+He thought it was a diamond at first, that sparkled there beside the
+star, but when he looked again, lo, nothing but a tear.
+
+Then went he back unto the joyous garden by slow degrees, for he was now
+sore spent. And after that the summons came full often. Whenever all the
+world seemed loveliest and life most sweet, then was the call most sure
+to come. But never once he faltered. Never was he faithless to the
+king's behest. Up weary mountain steps he toiled to find the sombre face
+of Disappointment there in waiting, and Suffering and Pain were often at
+his journey's end, and once a sore Defeat. But bravely as the months
+went by he learned to smile into their eyes, no matter which one handed
+out to him the pledge of Duty well performed.
+
+One day, when he no longer was a beardless youth, but grown to pleasing
+stature and of great brawn, he heard the hoped-for call of which he long
+had dreamed: "Ederyn! Ederyn! The king himself awaits thee. Midsummer
+morn at lark-song, keep tryst beside the palace gate."
+
+As travellers on the desert, spent and worn, see far across the sand the
+palm-tree's green that marks life-giving wells, so Ederyn hailed this
+summons to the king. The soul-consuming thirst that long had urged him
+on grew fiercer as the well of consummation came in sight. Hope shod his
+feet with wings, as thus with every nerve a-strain he pushed toward the
+final tryst. So fearful was he some mishap might snatch the cup away ere
+it had touched his thirsty lips, that three full days before the time he
+reached the Vale of Avalon, and sat him down outside the entrance to the
+palace.
+
+Now there came prowling through the wood that edged the fair domain the
+gnarled dwarfs that do the will of Shudderwain. And Shudderwain, of all
+the giants thereabouts, most cruel was and to be feared. Knowing full
+well what pleasure it would give the bloody monster, these dwarfs laid
+evil hands on Ederyn. Sleeping they found him, and bound him with hard
+leathern thongs, and then with gibes and impish laughter dragged him
+into a dungeon past the help of man.
+
+Two days and nights he lay there, raging at fate and at his
+helplessness, till he was well-nigh mad, bethinking him of all his
+baffled hopes. And like a madman gnawed he on the leathern thongs till
+he was free, and beat his hands against the stubborn rock that would not
+yield, and threw himself against the walls that held him in.
+
+The dwarfs from time to time peered through the slatted window overhead
+and mocked him, pointing with their crooked thumbs.
+
+"Ha! ha! Thou'lt keep no tryst," they chattered. "But if thou'lt swear
+upon thy oath to go back to the joyous garden, and hark no more for
+Merlin's call, we'll let thee loose from out this Dungeon of thy
+Disappointment."
+
+Then was Ederyn tempted, for the dungeon was foul indeed, and his heart
+cried out to go back to the lily maiden. But once more in his ears he
+thrust his fingers and cried:
+
+    "'To the king's call alone I'll list!
+     Oh, heart and hand of mine, keep tryst--
+          Keep tryst or die!'"
+
+On the third night, with the quiet of despair he threw him prone upon
+the dungeon floor and held his peace, no longer gnawing on his thongs or
+beating on the rock. A single moonbeam straggled through the slatted
+window, and by its light he saw a spider spinning out a web. Then,
+looking dully around, he saw the dungeon was hung thick with other webs,
+foul with the dust of years. Great festoons of the cobweb film shrouded
+his prison walls. As up and down the hairy creature swung itself upon
+its thread, the hopeless eyes of Ederyn followed it.
+
+All in a twinkling he saw how he might profit by the spider's teaching,
+and clapped his hand across his mouth to keep from shouting out his joy
+so that the dwarfs could hear. Now once more like a madman rushing at
+the walls, he tore down all the dusty webs, and twisted them together in
+long strands. These strands he braided in thick ropes and tied them,
+knotting them and twisting and doubling once again. All the while he
+kept bewailing the stupid way in which he wasted time. "Three days ago I
+might have quit this den," he sighed, "had I but used the means that
+lay at hand. Full well I knew that heaven always finds a way to help the
+man who helps himself. No creature lives too mean to be of service, and
+even dungeon walls must harbour help for him who boldly grasps the first
+thing that he sees and makes it serve him."
+
+So fast and furiously he worked that, long before the moonbeam faded,
+his cobweb rope was strong enough to bear his weight, and long enough to
+reach twice over to the slatted window overhead. By many trials he at
+last succeeded in throwing it around a spike that barred the window,
+and, climbing up, he forced the slats apart and clambered through. Then
+tying the rope's end to the window, he slid down all the dizzy
+cliffside in which the dwarfs had dug the dungeon, and dropped into the
+stream that ran below.
+
+Lo, when he looked around him it was dawn. Midsummer morn it was, and,
+plunging through the wood, he heard the lark's song rise, and reached
+the palace gate just as it opened to the blare of trumpets for the
+king's train to ride forth. When Ederyn saw the royal cavalcade, he
+shrunk back into the wayside bushes, so ill-befitting did it seem that
+he should come before the king in tattered garments, with blood upon his
+hands where the sharp rocks had cut, and with foul dungeon stains.
+
+But that the king might know he'd ever proven faithful, he sank upon his
+knees and bared his breast at his approach. There all the pledges
+glistened in the sunlight, in rainbow hues. There Pain had dropped her
+heart's blood in a glittering ruby, and Honour set her seal upon him in
+a golden star. A diamond gleamed where Sorrow's tear had fallen, and
+amethysts glowed now with purple splendour to mark his patient meeting
+with Defeat. But mostly were the pledges little pearls for little
+duties faithfully performed; and there they shone, and, as the people
+gazed, they saw the jewels take the shape of letters, so that the king
+read out before them all, "_Semper fidelis_."
+
+Then drew the king his royal sword and lightly smote on Ederyn's
+shoulder, and cried: "Arise, Sir Knight, Sir Ederyn the Trusty. Since I
+may trust thee to the utmost in little things as well as great, since
+thou of all men art most worthy, henceforth by thy king's heart thou
+shalt ride, ever to be his faithful guard and comrade."
+
+So there before them all he did him honour, and ordered that a prancing
+steed be brought and a good sword buckled on his side.
+
+Thus Ederyn won his sovereign's favour. Soon, by his sovereign's grace
+permitted, he went back to the joyous garden to woo the lily maiden.
+When he had won his bride and borne her to the palace, then was his
+great reward complete for all his years of fealty to his vow. Then out
+into the world he went to guard his king. Henceforth blazoned on his
+shield and helmet he bore the crest--a heart with hand that grasped a
+spear, and, underneath, these words:
+
+    "_I keep the tryst!_"
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
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