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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Keeping Tryst + A Tale of King Arthur's Time + +Author: Annie Fellows Johnston + +Release Date: May 2, 2012 [EBook #39591] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KEEPING TRYST *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="355" height="600" alt="cover: Keeping Tryst" /> +</div> +<hr class="chap" /> + + +<h1><i>KEEPING TRYST</i></h1> + +<div class='center'><i>A TALE OF KING ARTHUR'S TIME</i></div> + + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<div class='adtitle1'>The Johnston Jewel Series</div> +<div class='center'> +<span class="smcap">By Annie Fellows Johnston</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /> +Each, small 16mo, cloth,<br /> +decorated cover and frontispiece,<br /> +with decorative text<br /> +borders <i>75c.</i><br /><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">List of Titles</span></div> +<div class='blockquot'> +<div class='hang1'>THE RESCUE OF THE PRINCESS +WINSOME: A Fairy Play for Old +and Young.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>KEEPING TRYST: A Tale of King +Arthur's Time.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>*IN THE DESERT OF WAITING: +The Legend of Camelback Mountain.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>*THE THREE WEAVERS: A Fairy +Tale for Fathers and Mothers as +Well as for Their Daughters.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>THE LEGEND OF THE BLEEDING +HEART.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>*THE JESTER'S SWORD.</div> + +<p>*Also bound in full flexible leather, +with special tooling in gold, boxed +<i>$2.00</i></p> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +THE PAGE COMPANY<br /> +<span class="smcap">53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.</span><br /> +</div> +<hr class="chap" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;"> +<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="341" height="600" alt="On a quest" /> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap" /><div class='center'> <table class="title" summary="title"> +<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + +<h1><i>KEEPING<br /> +TRYST</i></h1> + +<div class='adtitle1'>A Tale of King Arthur's Time<br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +"<i>'Tis the king's call. O list!<br /> +Thou heart and hand of mine,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Keep tryst—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Keep tryst or die!"</span></i><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br />BY<br /> +<span class='author'>ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON</span><br /> + + +<i><span class='small'>Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big</span><br /> +<span class='small'>Brother," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," etc.</span></i><br /> +<br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 65px;"> +<img src="images/emblem.jpg" width="65" height="75" alt="fleur de lis" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /> +BOSTON<br /> +<span class='big'><i>THE PAGE COMPANY</i></span><br /> +PUBLISHERS<br /> +</div> +<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td> +</tr></table></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + + +<div class='copyright'> +<i>Copyright, 1905</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">By L. C. Page & Company</span><br /> +(Incorporated)<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<i>Copyright, 1906</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">By L. C. Page & Company</span><br /> +(Incorporated)<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<i>All rights reserved</i><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Second Impression, December, 1906<br /> +Third Impression, April, 1910<br /> +Fourth Impression, May, 1911<br /> +Fifth Impression, February, 1914<br /> +Sixth Impression, April, 1918<br /> +Seventh Impression, June, 1920<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<i>COLONIAL PRESS</i><br /> +<i>Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.</i><br /> +<i>Boston, U.S.A.</i><br /> +</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><i>Keeping Tryst</i></h2> + + +<div class='cap'>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span> +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.</div> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +all save his singing and the +noble knights whereof he +sang.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +with upturned face +against the old man's knee.</p> + +<p>"How now, thou flaxen-haired," +the minstrel said, +with kindly smile. "Dost +like my song?"</p> + +<p>"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>I</i> to gain the +title of a knight? How doth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +one win such honours and +acclaim and reach the high +estate that thou dost laud?"</p> + +<p>The minstrel gazed a little +space into the Yule log's +flame, and stroked his long +hoar beard. Then made he +answer:</p> + +<p>"Some win their spurs and +earn the royal accolade because +the blood of dragons +stains their hands. From +mighty combat with these<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +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."</p> + +<p>Then Ederyn sighed, for +well he knew his stripling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>"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?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +They'd prove but flames to +burn away thy daily peace."</p> + +<p>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.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +question of the Yule-tide +gone.</p> + +<p>"Ah, now, thou flaxen-haired," +he whispered in his +ear. "I bear thee tidings +which should make thee sing +for joy. There <i>is</i> 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."</p> + +<p>Then all aquiver with his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +eagerness did Ederyn kneel, +with face alight, beside the +minstrel's knee to hear.</p> + +<p>"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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +trustworthy, until on +hand and heart it may be +graven large, '<i>In all things +faithful</i>.'</p> + +<p>"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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +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."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"'Tis the king's call. O list!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Keep tryst or die!"</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>Then Ederyn, with his +hand upon his heart, made<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +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:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"''Tis the king's call. O list!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Keep tryst or die!'"</span><br /> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +an elfin horn, but the words +came clearly.</p> + +<p>"Ederyn! Ederyn! One +awaits thee at nightfall in +the shade of the yew-tree +by the abbey tower! Keep +tryst!"</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +duty been performed, right +willingly the squire did grant +him grace, and forthwith +Ederyn sped upon his mission.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +bravely, saying: "I am Ederyn, +come to keep the king's +tryst."</p> + +<p>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."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>Again before the dawn he +climbed into the tower, and,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +listening when the voices of +the world were still, heard +clear and sweet, like far-blown +elfin horn, another +summons.</p> + +<p>"Ederyn! Ederyn! One +awaits thee at the midnight +hour beside black Kilgore's +water. Keep tryst!"</p> + +<p>Again to gain his squire's +permission he toiled with +double care. This time his +task was counting all the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +again was fain to speed him +on his way.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +the tryst. And when he +looked, another pearl gleamed +there beside the first.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Once he fared forth along<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +star lay on his heart +above the pearls.</p> + +<p>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,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>Yet was he faithful to his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +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:</p> + +<p>"Ederyn! Ederyn! One +waits thee far away. By the +black cave of Atropos, when +the moon fulls, keep thy +tryst!"</p> + +<p>Now 'twas a seven days' +journey to that cave, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +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."</p> + +<p>The fountain softly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +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:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +"With the compass needle +of my soul true to the +north star of my great ambition, +I will follow where it +leads."</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> +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:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"''Tis the king's call! O list!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Thou heart and hand of mine, keep tryst—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Keep tryst or die!'"</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>With that, in one mighty +struggle he dragged himself<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>"Ederyn," she sighed, +"here is thy token that the +king may know that thou +hast met me face to face."</p> + +<p>He thought it was a diamond<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +at first, that sparkled +there beside the star, but +when he looked again, lo, +nothing but a tear.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +the pledge of Duty well performed.</p> + +<p>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."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>Now there came prowling +through the wood that edged +the fair domain the gnarled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +him into a dungeon past the +help of man.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +against the walls that held +him in.</p> + +<p>The dwarfs from time to +time peered through the slatted +window overhead and +mocked him, pointing with +their crooked thumbs.</p> + +<p>"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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +let thee loose from out this +Dungeon of thy Disappointment."</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"'To the king's call alone I'll list!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Oh, heart and hand of mine, keep tryst—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Keep tryst or die!'"</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>On the third night, with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +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."</p> + +<p>So fast and furiously he +worked that, long before the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +all the dizzy cliffside in +which the dwarfs had dug +the dungeon, and dropped +into the stream that ran below.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>But that the king might +know he'd ever proven faithful, +he sank upon his knees<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +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, "<i>Semper +fidelis</i>."</p> + +<p>Then drew the king his +royal sword and lightly +smote on Ederyn's shoulder, +and cried: "Arise, Sir<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +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."</p> + +<p>So there before them all +he did him honour, and +ordered that a prancing +steed be brought and a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +good sword buckled on his +side.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +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:</p> + +<div class='center'> +"<i>I keep the tryst!</i>"<br /> +<br /><br /><br /> + + +THE END.<br /><br /></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Keeping Tryst, by Annie Fellows Johnston + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KEEPING TRYST *** + +***** This file should be named 39591-h.htm or 39591-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/5/9/39591/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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