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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: The Prince and The Pauper, Part 7. + +Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +Release Date: July 4, 2004 [EBook #7160] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 7. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER</h1> +<br><br> +<h2>by Mark Twain +<br><br><br><br>Part Seven +</h2> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (148K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="1018" width="948"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="frontispiece1.jpg (135K)" src="images/frontispiece1.jpg" height="1067" width="745"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="frontispiece2.jpg (123K)" src="images/frontispiece2.jpg" height="939" width="747"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="titlepage.jpg (62K)" src="images/titlepage.jpg" height="1083" width="815"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="greatseal.jpg (68K)" src="images/greatseal.jpg" height="438" width="711"> +<br>The Great Seal +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="dedication.jpg (21K)" src="images/dedication.jpg" height="420" width="663"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="inscription.jpg (16K)" src="images/inscription.jpg" height="219" width="601"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<b> +I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his +father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like +manner had it of HIS father—and so on, back and still back, three +hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so +preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. +It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have +happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old +days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and +credited it.</b> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<h2> +CONTENTS</h2> + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + + +XXII. </td><td><a href="#c22">A victim of treachery.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +XXIII. </td><td><a href="#c23">The Prince a prisoner.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +XXIV. </td><td><a href="#c24">The escape.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +XXV. </td><td><a href="#c25">Hendon Hall.</a><br></td></tr><tr><td> +XXVI. </td><td><a href="#c26">Disowned.</a><br></td></tr> + + + +</table> +</center> + + + + + + +<br><br><br><br> + +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + + +<a href="#22-267">A VICTIM OF TREACHERY</a><br><br> +<a href="#22-270">"HUGO STOOD NO CHANCE"</a><br><br> +<a href="#22-272">"BOUND THE POULTICE TIGHT AND FAST"</a><br><br> +<a href="#22-274">"TARRY HERE TILL I COME AGAIN</a><br><br> +<a href="#22-276">"KING SPRANG TO HIS DELIVERER'S SIDE"</a><br><br> +<a href="#23-279">THE PRINCE A PRISONER</a><br><br> +<a href="#23-282">"GENTLY, GOOD FRIEND"</a><br><br> +<a href="#23-284">"SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET"</a><br><br> +<a href="#24-287">THE ESCAPE</a><br><br> +<a href="#24-290">"THE PIG MAY COST THY NECK, MAN"</a><br><br> +<a href="#24-292">"BEAR ME UP, BEAR ME UP, SWEET SIR!"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-293">HENDON HALL</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-296">"JOGGING EASTWARD ON SORRY STEEDS"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-297">"THERE IS THE VILLAGE, MY PRINCE!"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-299">"'EMBRACE ME, HUGH,' HE CRIED"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-301">"HUGH PUT UP HIS HAND IN DISSENT"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-303">"A BEAUTIFUL LADY, RICHLY CLOTHED"</a><br><br> +<a href="#25-305">"HUGH WAS PINNED TO THE WALL"</a><br><br> +<a href="#26-307">DISOWNED</a><br><br> +<a href="#26-310">"OBEY, AND HAVE NO FEAR"</a><br><br> +<a href="#26-313">"AM I MILES HENDON?"</a><br><br> + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c22"></a> +<a name="22-267"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="22-267.jpg (44K)" src="images/22-267.jpg" height="370" width="692"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter XXII. A victim of treachery.</p> + +<p>Once more 'King Foo-foo the First' was roving with the tramps and +outlaws, a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and +sometimes the victim of small spitefulness at the hands of Canty and Hugo +when the Ruffler's back was turned. None but Canty and Hugo really +disliked him. Some of the others liked him, and all admired his pluck +and spirit. During two or three days, Hugo, in whose ward and charge the +King was, did what he covertly could to make the boy uncomfortable; and +at night, during the customary orgies, he amused the company by putting +small indignities upon him—always as if by accident. Twice he stepped +upon the King's toes—accidentally—and the King, as became his royalty, +was contemptuously unconscious of it and indifferent to it; but the third +time Hugo entertained himself in that way, the King felled him to the +ground with a cudgel, to the prodigious delight of the tribe. Hugo, +consumed with anger and shame, sprang up, seized a cudgel, and came at +his small adversary in a fury. Instantly a ring was formed around the +gladiators, and the betting and cheering began. +</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="22-270"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="22-270.jpg (85K)" src="images/22-270.jpg" height="597" width="461"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p> +But poor Hugo stood no +chance whatever. His frantic and lubberly 'prentice-work found but a +poor market for itself when pitted against an arm which had been trained +by the first masters of Europe in single-stick, quarter-staff, and every +art and trick of swordsmanship. The little King stood, alert but at +graceful ease, and caught and turned aside the thick rain of blows with a +facility and precision which set the motley on-lookers wild with +admiration; and every now and then, when his practised eye detected an +opening, and a lightning-swift rap upon Hugo's head followed as a result, +the storm of cheers and laughter that swept the place was something +wonderful to hear. At the end of fifteen minutes, Hugo, all battered, +bruised, and the target for a pitiless bombardment of ridicule, slunk +from the field; and the unscathed hero of the fight was seized and borne +aloft upon the shoulders of the joyous rabble to the place of honour +beside the Ruffler, where with vast ceremony he was crowned King of the +Game-Cocks; his meaner title being at the same time solemnly cancelled +and annulled, and a decree of banishment from the gang pronounced against +any who should thenceforth utter it.</p> + +<p>All attempts to make the King serviceable to the troop had failed. He had +stubbornly refused to act; moreover, he was always trying to escape. He +had been thrust into an unwatched kitchen, the first day of his return; +he not only came forth empty-handed, but tried to rouse the housemates. +He was sent out with a tinker to help him at his work; he would not work; +moreover, he threatened the tinker with his own soldering-iron; and +finally both Hugo and the tinker found their hands full with the mere +matter of keeping his from getting away. He delivered the thunders of +his royalty upon the heads of all who hampered his liberties or tried to +force him to service. He was sent out, in Hugo's charge, in company with +a slatternly woman and a diseased baby, to beg; but the result was not +encouraging—he declined to plead for the mendicants, or be a party to +their cause in any way.</p> + +<p>Thus several days went by; and the miseries of this tramping life, and +the weariness and sordidness and meanness and vulgarity of it, became +gradually and steadily so intolerable to the captive that he began at +last to feel that his release from the hermit's knife must prove only a +temporary respite from death, at best.</p> + +<p>But at night, in his dreams, these things were forgotten, and he was on +his throne, and master again. This, of course, intensified the +sufferings of the awakening—so the mortifications of each succeeding +morning of the few that passed between his return to bondage and the +combat with Hugo, grew bitterer and bitterer, and harder and harder to +bear.</p> + +<p>The morning after that combat, Hugo got up with a heart filled with +vengeful purposes against the King. He had two plans, in particular. +One was to inflict upon the lad what would be, to his proud spirit and +'imagined' royalty, a peculiar humiliation; and if he failed to +accomplish this, his other plan was to put a crime of some kind upon the +King, and then betray him into the implacable clutches of the law.</p> + +<p>In pursuance of the first plan, he purposed to put a 'clime' upon the +King's leg; rightly judging that that would mortify him to the last and +perfect degree; and as soon as the clime should operate, he meant to get +Canty's help, and FORCE the King to expose his leg in the highway and beg +for alms. 'Clime' was the cant term for a sore, artificially created. +To make a clime, the operator made a paste or poultice of unslaked lime, +soap, and the rust of old iron, and spread it upon a piece of leather, +which was then bound tightly upon the leg. This would presently fret off +the skin, and make the flesh raw and angry-looking; blood was then rubbed +upon the limb, which, being fully dried, took on a dark and repulsive +colour. Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless +way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the +compassion of the passer-by. {8}</p> + +<p>Hugo got the help of the tinker whom the King had cowed with the +soldering-iron; they took the boy out on a tinkering tramp, and as soon +as they were out of sight of the camp they threw him down and the tinker +held him while Hugo bound the poultice tight and fast upon his leg.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="22-272"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="22-272.jpg (139K)" src="images/22-272.jpg" height="699" width="711"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The King raged and stormed, and promised to hang the two the moment the +sceptre was in his hand again; but they kept a firm grip upon him and +enjoyed his impotent struggling and jeered at his threats. This +continued until the poultice began to bite; and in no long time its work +would have been perfected, if there had been no interruption. But there +was; for about this time the 'slave' who had made the speech denouncing +England's laws, appeared on the scene, and put an end to the enterprise, +and stripped off the poultice and bandage.</p> + +<p>The King wanted to borrow his deliverer's cudgel and warm the jackets of +the two rascals on the spot; but the man said no, it would bring +trouble—leave the matter till night; the whole tribe being together, then, the +outside world would not venture to interfere or interrupt. He marched +the party back to camp and reported the affair to the Ruffler, who +listened, pondered, and then decided that the King should not be again +detailed to beg, since it was plain he was worthy of something higher and +better—wherefore, on the spot he promoted him from the mendicant rank +and appointed him to steal!</p> + +<p>Hugo was overjoyed. He had already tried to make the King steal, and +failed; but there would be no more trouble of that sort, now, for of +course the King would not dream of defying a distinct command delivered +directly from head-quarters. So he planned a raid for that very +afternoon, purposing to get the King in the law's grip in the course of +it; and to do it, too, with such ingenious strategy, that it should seem +to be accidental and unintentional; for the King of the Game-Cocks was +popular now, and the gang might not deal over-gently with an unpopular +member who played so serious a treachery upon him as the delivering him +over to the common enemy, the law.</p> + +<p>Very well. All in good time Hugo strolled off to a neighbouring village +with his prey; and the two drifted slowly up and down one street after +another, the one watching sharply for a sure chance to achieve his evil +purpose, and the other watching as sharply for a chance to dart away and +get free of his infamous captivity for ever.</p> + +<p>Both threw away some tolerably fair-looking opportunities; for both, in +their secret hearts, were resolved to make absolutely sure work this +time, and neither meant to allow his fevered desires to seduce him into +any venture that had much uncertainty about it.</p> + +<p>Hugo's chance came first. For at last a woman approached who carried a +fat package of some sort in a basket. Hugo's eyes sparkled with sinful +pleasure as he said to himself, "Breath o' my life, an' I can but put +THAT upon him, 'tis good-den and God keep thee, King of the Game-Cocks!" +He waited and watched—outwardly patient, but inwardly consuming with +excitement—till the woman had passed by, and the time was ripe; then +said, in a low voice—</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="22-274"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="22-274.jpg (135K)" src="images/22-274.jpg" height="729" width="734"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Tarry here till I come again," and darted stealthily after the prey.</p> + +<p>The King's heart was filled with joy—he could make his escape, now, if +Hugo's quest only carried him far enough away.</p> + +<p>But he was to have no such luck. Hugo crept behind the woman, snatched +the package, and came running back, wrapping it in an old piece of +blanket which he carried on his arm. The hue and cry was raised in a +moment, by the woman, who knew her loss by the lightening of her burden, +although she had not seen the pilfering done. Hugo thrust the bundle +into the King's hands without halting, saying—</p> + +<p>"Now speed ye after me with the rest, and cry 'Stop thief!' but mind ye +lead them astray!"</p> + +<p>The next moment Hugo turned a corner and darted down a crooked alley—and +in another moment or two he lounged into view again, looking innocent and +indifferent, and took up a position behind a post to watch results.</p> + +<p>The insulted King threw the bundle on the ground; and the blanket fell +away from it just as the woman arrived, with an augmenting crowd at her +heels; she seized the King's wrist with one hand, snatched up her bundle +with the other, and began to pour out a tirade of abuse upon the boy +while he struggled, without success, to free himself from her grip.</p> + +<p>Hugo had seen enough—his enemy was captured and the law would get him, +now—so he slipped away, jubilant and chuckling, and wended campwards, +framing a judicious version of the matter to give to the Ruffler's crew +as he strode along.</p> + +<p>The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and +then cried out in vexation—</p> + +<p>"Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy +paltry goods."</p> + +<p>The crowd closed around, threatening the King and calling him names; a +brawny blacksmith in leather apron, and sleeves rolled to his elbows, +made a reach for him, saying he would trounce him well, for a lesson; but +just then a long sword flashed in the air and fell with convincing force +upon the man's arm, flat side down, the fantastic owner of it remarking +pleasantly, at the same time—</p> + +<p>"Marry, good souls, let us proceed gently, not with ill blood and +uncharitable words. This is matter for the law's consideration, not +private and unofficial handling. Loose thy hold from the boy, goodwife."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="22-276"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="22-276.jpg (140K)" src="images/22-276.jpg" height="677" width="746"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The blacksmith averaged the stalwart soldier with a glance, then went +muttering away, rubbing his arm; the woman released the boy's wrist +reluctantly; the crowd eyed the stranger unlovingly, but prudently closed +their mouths. The King sprang to his deliverer's side, with flushed +cheeks and sparkling eyes, exclaiming—</p> + +<p>"Thou hast lagged sorely, but thou comest in good season, now, Sir Miles; +carve me this rabble to rags!"</p> + + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c23"></a> +<a name="23-279"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="23-279.jpg (41K)" src="images/23-279.jpg" height="335" width="697"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter XXIII. The Prince a prisoner.</p> + +<p>Hendon forced back a smile, and bent down and whispered in the King's +ear—</p> + +<p>"Softly, softly, my prince, wag thy tongue warily—nay, suffer it not to +wag at all. Trust in me—all shall go well in the end." Then he added to +himself: "SIR Miles! Bless me, I had totally forgot I was a knight! +Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon +his quaint and crazy fancies! . . . An empty and foolish title is mine, +and yet it is something to have deserved it; for I think it is more +honour to be held worthy to be a spectre-knight in his Kingdom of Dreams +and Shadows, than to be held base enough to be an earl in some of the +REAL kingdoms of this world."</p> + +<p>The crowd fell apart to admit a constable, who approached and was about +to lay his hand upon the King's shoulder, when Hendon said—</p> + +<p>"Gently, good friend, withhold your hand—he shall go peaceably; I am +responsible for that. Lead on, we will follow."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="23-282"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="23-282.jpg (90K)" src="images/23-282.jpg" height="680" width="488"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The officer led, with the woman and her bundle; Miles and the King +followed after, with the crowd at their heels. The King was inclined to +rebel; but Hendon said to him in a low voice—</p> + +<p>"Reflect, Sire—your laws are the wholesome breath of your own royalty; +shall their source resist them, yet require the branches to respect them? +Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the King is on his +throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was +seemingly a private person he loyally sank the king in the citizen and +submitted to its authority?"</p> + +<p>"Thou art right; say no more; thou shalt see that whatsoever the King of +England requires a subject to suffer, under the law, he will himself +suffer while he holdeth the station of a subject."</p> + +<p>When the woman was called upon to testify before the justice of the +peace, she swore that the small prisoner at the bar was the person who +had committed the theft; there was none able to show the contrary, so the +King stood convicted. The bundle was now unrolled, and when the contents +proved to be a plump little dressed pig, the judge looked troubled, +whilst Hendon turned pale, and his body was thrilled with an electric +shiver of dismay; but the King remained unmoved, protected by his +ignorance. The judge meditated, during an ominous pause, then turned to +the woman, with the question—</p> + +<p>"What dost thou hold this property to be worth?"</p> + +<p>The woman courtesied and replied—</p> + +<p>"Three shillings and eightpence, your worship—I could not abate a penny +and set forth the value honestly."</p> + +<p>The justice glanced around uncomfortably upon the crowd, then nodded to +the constable, and said—</p> + +<p>"Clear the court and close the doors."</p> + +<p>It was done. None remained but the two officials, the accused, the +accuser, and Miles Hendon. This latter was rigid and colourless, and on +his forehead big drops of cold sweat gathered, broke and blended +together, and trickled down his face. The judge turned to the woman +again, and said, in a compassionate voice—</p> + +<p>"'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for +these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an +evil face—but when hunger driveth—Good woman! dost know that when one +steals a thing above the value of thirteenpence ha'penny the law saith he +shall HANG for it?"</p> + +<p>The little King started, wide-eyed with consternation, but controlled +himself and held his peace; but not so the woman. She sprang to her +feet, shaking with fright, and cried out—</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="23-284"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="23-284.jpg (143K)" src="images/23-284.jpg" height="785" width="718"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Oh, good lack, what have I done! God-a-mercy, I would not hang the poor +thing for the whole world! Ah, save me from this, your worship—what +shall I do, what CAN I do?"</p> + +<p>The justice maintained his judicial composure, and simply said—</p> + +<p>"Doubtless it is allowable to revise the value, since it is not yet writ +upon the record."</p> + +<p>"Then in God's name call the pig eightpence, and heaven bless the day +that freed my conscience of this awesome thing!"</p> + +<p>Miles Hendon forgot all decorum in his delight; and surprised the King +and wounded his dignity, by throwing his arms around him and hugging him. +The woman made her grateful adieux and started away with her pig; and +when the constable opened the door for her, he followed her out into the +narrow hall. The justice proceeded to write in his record book. Hendon, +always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the +woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. He +heard a conversation to this effect—</p> + +<p>"It is a fat pig, and promises good eating; I will buy it of thee; here +is the eightpence."</p> + +<p>"Eightpence, indeed! Thou'lt do no such thing. It cost me three +shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old +Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. A fig for thy +eightpence!"</p> + +<p>"Stands the wind in that quarter? Thou wast under oath, and so swore +falsely when thou saidst the value was but eightpence. Come straightway +back with me before his worship, and answer for the crime!—and then the +lad will hang."</p> + +<p>"There, there, dear heart, say no more, I am content. Give me the +eightpence, and hold thy peace about the matter."</p> + +<p>The woman went off crying: Hendon slipped back into the court room, and +the constable presently followed, after hiding his prize in some +convenient place. The justice wrote a while longer, then read the King a +wise and kindly lecture, and sentenced him to a short imprisonment in the +common jail, to be followed by a public flogging. The astounded King +opened his mouth, and was probably going to order the good judge to be +beheaded on the spot; but he caught a warning sign from Hendon, and +succeeded in closing his mouth again before he lost anything out of it. +Hendon took him by the hand, now, made reverence to the justice, and the +two departed in the wake of the constable toward the jail. The moment +the street was reached, the inflamed monarch halted, snatched away his +hand, and exclaimed—</p> + +<p>"Idiot, dost imagine I will enter a common jail ALIVE?"</p> + +<p>Hendon bent down and said, somewhat sharply—</p> + +<p>"WILL you trust in me? Peace! and forbear to worsen our chances with +dangerous speech. What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, +thou canst not alter it; therefore wait, and be patient—'twill be time +enow to rail or rejoice when what is to happen has happened." {1}</p> + + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c24"></a> +<a name="24-287"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="24-287.jpg (51K)" src="images/24-287.jpg" height="376" width="745"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter XXIV. The escape.</p> + +<p>The short winter day was nearly ended. The streets were deserted, save +for a few random stragglers, and these hurried straight along, with the +intent look of people who were only anxious to accomplish their errands +as quickly as possible, and then snugly house themselves from the rising +wind and the gathering twilight. They looked neither to the right nor to +the left; they paid no attention to our party, they did not even seem to +see them. Edward the Sixth wondered if the spectacle of a king on his way +to jail had ever encountered such marvellous indifference before. +By-and-by the constable arrived at a deserted market-square, and proceeded to +cross it. When he had reached the middle of it, Hendon laid his hand +upon his arm, and said in a low voice—</p> + +<p>"Bide a moment, good sir, there is none in hearing, and I would say a +word to thee."</p> + +<p>"My duty forbids it, sir; prithee hinder me not, the night comes on."</p> + +<p>"Stay, nevertheless, for the matter concerns thee nearly. Turn thy back +a moment and seem not to see: LET THIS POOR LAD ESCAPE."</p> + +<p>"This to me, sir! I arrest thee in—"</p> + +<p>"Nay, be not too hasty. See thou be careful and commit no foolish +error"—then he shut his voice down to a whisper, and said in the man's +ear—"the pig thou hast purchased for eightpence may cost thee thy neck, +man!"</p> + +<p>The poor constable, taken by surprise, was speechless, at first, then +found his tongue and fell to blustering and threatening; but Hendon was +tranquil, and waited with patience till his breath was spent; then said—</p> + +<p>"I have a liking to thee, friend, and would not willingly see thee come +to harm. Observe, I heard it all—every word. I will prove it to thee." +Then he repeated the conversation which the officer and the woman had had +together in the hall, word for word, and ended with—</p> + +<p>"There—have I set it forth correctly? Should not I be able to set it +forth correctly before the judge, if occasion required?"</p> + +<p>The man was dumb with fear and distress, for a moment; then he rallied, +and said with forced lightness—</p> + +<p>"'Tis making a mighty matter, indeed, out of a jest; I but plagued the +woman for mine amusement."</p> + +<p>"Kept you the woman's pig for amusement?"</p> + +<p>The man answered sharply—</p> + +<p>"Nought else, good sir—I tell thee 'twas but a jest."</p> + +<p>"I do begin to believe thee," said Hendon, with a perplexing mixture of +mockery and half-conviction in his tone; "but tarry thou here a moment +whilst I run and ask his worship—for nathless, he being a man +experienced in law, in jests, in—"</p> + + +<br><br> +<a name="24-290"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="24-290.jpg (55K)" src="images/24-290.jpg" height="479" width="469"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He was moving away, still talking; the constable hesitated, fidgeted, +spat out an oath or two, then cried out—</p> + +<p>"Hold, hold, good sir—prithee wait a little—the judge! Why, man, he +hath no more sympathy with a jest than hath a dead corpse!—come, and we +will speak further. Ods body! I seem to be in evil case—and all for an +innocent and thoughtless pleasantry. I am a man of family; and my wife +and little ones—List to reason, good your worship: what wouldst thou +of me?"</p> + +<p>"Only that thou be blind and dumb and paralytic whilst one may count a +hundred thousand—counting slowly," said Hendon, with the expression of a +man who asks but a reasonable favour, and that a very little one.</p> + +<p>"It is my destruction!" said the constable despairingly. "Ah, be +reasonable, good sir; only look at this matter, on all its sides, and see +how mere a jest it is—how manifestly and how plainly it is so. And even +if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e'en the +grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning +from the judge's lips."</p> + +<p>Hendon replied with a solemnity which chilled the air about him—</p> + +<p>"This jest of thine hath a name, in law,—wot you what it is?"</p> + +<p>"I knew it not! Peradventure I have been unwise. I never dreamed it had +a name—ah, sweet heaven, I thought it was original."</p> + +<p>"Yes, it hath a name. In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis +lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi."</p> + +<p>"Ah, my God!"</p> + +<p>"And the penalty is death!"</p> + +<p>"God be merciful to me a sinner!"</p> + +<p>"By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, +thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a +trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive +barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem +expurgatis in statu quo—and the penalty is death by the halter, without +ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy."</p> + +<p>"Bear me up, bear me up, sweet sir, my legs do fail me! Be thou +merciful—spare me this doom, and I will turn my back and see nought that +shall happen."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="24-292"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="24-292.jpg (157K)" src="images/24-292.jpg" height="891" width="724"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Good! now thou'rt wise and reasonable. And thou'lt restore the pig?"</p> + +<p>"I will, I will indeed—nor ever touch another, though heaven send it and +an archangel fetch it. Go—I am blind for thy sake—I see nothing. I +will say thou didst break in and wrest the prisoner from my hands by +force. It is but a crazy, ancient door—I will batter it down myself +betwixt midnight and the morning."</p> + +<p>"Do it, good soul, no harm will come of it; the judge hath a loving +charity for this poor lad, and will shed no tears and break no jailer's +bones for his escape."</p> + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c25"></a> +<a name="25-293"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-293.jpg (54K)" src="images/25-293.jpg" height="398" width="722"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter XXV. Hendon Hall.</p> + +<p>As soon as Hendon and the King were out of sight of the constable, his +Majesty was instructed to hurry to a certain place outside the town, and +wait there, whilst Hendon should go to the inn and settle his account. +Half an hour later the two friends were blithely jogging eastward on +Hendon's sorry steeds. The King was warm and comfortable, now, for he +had cast his rags and clothed himself in the second-hand suit which +Hendon had bought on London Bridge.</p> + + +<br><br> +<a name="25-296"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-296.jpg (148K)" src="images/25-296.jpg" height="833" width="722"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Hendon wished to guard against over-fatiguing the boy; he judged that +hard journeys, irregular meals, and illiberal measures of sleep would be +bad for his crazed mind; whilst rest, regularity, and moderate exercise +would be pretty sure to hasten its cure; he longed to see the stricken +intellect made well again and its diseased visions driven out of the +tormented little head; therefore he resolved to move by easy stages +toward the home whence he had so long been banished, instead of obeying +the impulse of his impatience and hurrying along night and day.</p> + +<p>When he and the King had journeyed about ten miles, they reached a +considerable village, and halted there for the night, at a good inn. The +former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, +while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for +bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the +door, rolled up in a blanket.</p> + +<p>The next day, and the day after, they jogged lazily along talking over +the adventures they had met since their separation, and mightily enjoying +each other's narratives. Hendon detailed all his wide wanderings in +search of the King, and described how the archangel had led him a fool's +journey all over the forest, and taken him back to the hut, finally, when +he found he could not get rid of him. Then—he said—the old man went +into the bedchamber and came staggering back looking broken-hearted, and +saying he had expected to find that the boy had returned and laid down in +there to rest, but it was not so. Hendon had waited at the hut all day; +hope of the King's return died out, then, and he departed upon the quest +again.</p> + +<p>"And old Sanctum Sanctorum WAS truly sorry your highness came not back," +said Hendon; "I saw it in his face."</p> + +<p>"Marry I will never doubt THAT!" said the King—and then told his own +story; after which, Hendon was sorry he had not destroyed the archangel.</p> + +<p>During the last day of the trip, Hendon's spirits were soaring. His +tongue ran constantly. He talked about his old father, and his brother +Arthur, and told of many things which illustrated their high and generous +characters; he went into loving frenzies over his Edith, and was so +glad-hearted that he was even able to say some gentle and brotherly things +about Hugh. He dwelt a deal on the coming meeting at Hendon Hall; what a +surprise it would be to everybody, and what an outburst of thanksgiving +and delight there would be.</p> + +<p>It was a fair region, dotted with cottages and orchards, and the road led +through broad pasture lands whose receding expanses, marked with gentle +elevations and depressions, suggested the swelling and subsiding +undulations of the sea. In the afternoon the returning prodigal made +constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock +he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home. At +last he was successful, and cried out excitedly—</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="25-297"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-297.jpg (108K)" src="images/25-297.jpg" height="623" width="717"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"There is the village, my Prince, and there is the Hall close by! You may +see the towers from here; and that wood there—that is my father's park. +Ah, NOW thou'lt know what state and grandeur be! A house with seventy +rooms—think of that!—and seven and twenty servants! A brave lodging +for such as we, is it not so? Come, let us speed—my impatience will not +brook further delay."</p> + +<p>All possible hurry was made; still, it was after three o'clock before the +village was reached. The travellers scampered through it, Hendon's +tongue going all the time. "Here is the church—covered with the same +ivy—none gone, none added." "Yonder is the inn, the old Red Lion,—and +yonder is the market-place." "Here is the Maypole, and here the +pump—nothing is altered; nothing but the people, at any rate; ten years make a +change in people; some of these I seem to know, but none know me." So +his chat ran on. The end of the village was soon reached; then the +travellers struck into a crooked, narrow road, walled in with tall +hedges, and hurried briskly along it for half a mile, then passed into a +vast flower garden through an imposing gateway, whose huge stone pillars +bore sculptured armorial devices. A noble mansion was before them.</p> + +<p>"Welcome to Hendon Hall, my King!" exclaimed Miles. "Ah, 'tis a great +day! My father and my brother, and the Lady Edith will be so mad with +joy that they will have eyes and tongue for none but me in the first +transports of the meeting, and so thou'lt seem but coldly welcomed—but +mind it not; 'twill soon seem otherwise; for when I say thou art my ward, +and tell them how costly is my love for thee, thou'lt see them take thee +to their breasts for Miles Hendon's sake, and make their house and hearts +thy home for ever after!"</p> + +<p>The next moment Hendon sprang to the ground before the great door, helped +the King down, then took him by the hand and rushed within. A few steps +brought him to a spacious apartment; he entered, seated the King with +more hurry than ceremony, then ran toward a young man who sat at a +writing-table in front of a generous fire of logs.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="25-299"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-299.jpg (107K)" src="images/25-299.jpg" height="571" width="721"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Embrace me, Hugh," he cried, "and say thou'rt glad I am come again! and +call our father, for home is not home till I shall touch his hand, and +see his face, and hear his voice once more!"</p> + +<p>But Hugh only drew back, after betraying a momentary surprise, and bent a +grave stare upon the intruder—a stare which indicated somewhat of +offended dignity, at first, then changed, in response to some inward +thought or purpose, to an expression of marvelling curiosity, mixed with +a real or assumed compassion. Presently he said, in a mild voice—</p> + +<p>"Thy wits seem touched, poor stranger; doubtless thou hast suffered +privations and rude buffetings at the world's hands; thy looks and dress +betoken it. Whom dost thou take me to be?"</p> + +<p>"Take thee? Prithee for whom else than whom thou art? I take thee to be +Hugh Hendon," said Miles, sharply.</p> + +<p>The other continued, in the same soft tone—</p> + +<p>"And whom dost thou imagine thyself to be?"</p> + +<p>"Imagination hath nought to do with it! Dost thou pretend thou knowest +me not for thy brother Miles Hendon?"</p> + +<p>An expression of pleased surprise flitted across Hugh's face, and he +exclaimed—</p> + +<p>"What! thou art not jesting? can the dead come to life? God be praised +if it be so! Our poor lost boy restored to our arms after all these +cruel years! Ah, it seems too good to be true, it IS too good to be +true—I charge thee, have pity, do not trifle with me! Quick—come to +the light—let me scan thee well!"</p> + +<p>He seized Miles by the arm, dragged him to the window, and began to +devour him from head to foot with his eyes, turning him this way and +that, and stepping briskly around him and about him to prove him from all +points of view; whilst the returned prodigal, all aglow with gladness, +smiled, laughed, and kept nodding his head and saying—</p> + +<p>"Go on, brother, go on, and fear not; thou'lt find nor limb nor feature +that cannot bide the test. Scour and scan me to thy content, my good old +Hugh—I am indeed thy old Miles, thy same old Miles, thy lost brother, +is't not so? Ah, 'tis a great day—I SAID 'twas a great day! Give me +thy hand, give me thy cheek—lord, I am like to die of very joy!"</p> + +<p>He was about to throw himself upon his brother; but Hugh put up his hand +in dissent, then dropped his chin mournfully upon his breast, saying with +emotion—</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="25-301"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-301.jpg (97K)" src="images/25-301.jpg" height="505" width="733"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Ah, God of his mercy give me strength to bear this grievous +disappointment!"</p> + +<p>Miles, amazed, could not speak for a moment; then he found his tongue, +and cried out—</p> + +<p>"WHAT disappointment? Am I not thy brother?"</p> + +<p>Hugh shook his head sadly, and said—</p> + +<p>"I pray heaven it may prove so, and that other eyes may find the +resemblances that are hid from mine. Alack, I fear me the letter spoke +but too truly."</p> + +<p>"What letter?"</p> + +<p>"One that came from over sea, some six or seven years ago. It said my +brother died in battle."</p> + +<p>"It was a lie! Call thy father—he will know me."</p> + +<p>"One may not call the dead."</p> + +<p>"Dead?" Miles's voice was subdued, and his lips trembled. "My father +dead!—oh, this is heavy news. Half my new joy is withered now. Prithee +let me see my brother Arthur—he will know me; he will know me and +console me."</p> + +<p>"He, also, is dead."</p> + +<p>"God be merciful to me, a stricken man! Gone,—both gone—the worthy +taken and the worthless spared, in me! Ah! I crave your mercy!—do not +say the Lady Edith—"</p> + +<p>"Is dead? No, she lives."</p> + +<p>"Then, God be praised, my joy is whole again! Speed thee, brother—let +her come to me! An' SHE say I am not myself—but she will not; no, no, +SHE will know me, I were a fool to doubt it. Bring her—bring the old +servants; they, too, will know me."</p> + +<p>"All are gone but five—Peter, Halsey, David, Bernard, and Margaret."</p> + +<p>So saying, Hugh left the room. Miles stood musing a while, then began to +walk the floor, muttering—</p> + +<p>"The five arch-villains have survived the two-and-twenty leal and +honest—'tis an odd thing."</p> + +<p>He continued walking back and forth, muttering to himself; he had +forgotten the King entirely. By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and +with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were +capable of being interpreted ironically—</p> + +<p>"Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose +identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. Thou hast company."</p> + +<p>"Ah, my King," cried Hendon, colouring slightly, "do not thou condemn +me—wait, and thou shalt see. I am no impostor—she will say it; you shall +hear it from the sweetest lips in England. I an impostor? Why, I know +this old hall, these pictures of my ancestors, and all these things that +are about us, as a child knoweth its own nursery. Here was I born and +bred, my lord; I speak the truth; I would not deceive thee; and should +none else believe, I pray thee do not THOU doubt me—I could not bear +it."</p> + +<p>"I do not doubt thee," said the King, with a childlike simplicity and +faith.</p> + +<p>"I thank thee out of my heart!" exclaimed Hendon with a fervency which +showed that he was touched. The King added, with the same gentle +simplicity—</p> + +<p>"Dost thou doubt ME?"</p> + +<p>A guilty confusion seized upon Hendon, and he was grateful that the door +opened to admit Hugh, at that moment, and saved him the necessity of +replying.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="25-303"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-303.jpg (113K)" src="images/25-303.jpg" height="552" width="725"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>A beautiful lady, richly clothed, followed Hugh, and after her came +several liveried servants. The lady walked slowly, with her head bowed +and her eyes fixed upon the floor. The face was unspeakably sad. Miles +Hendon sprang forward, crying out—</p> + +<p>"Oh, my Edith, my darling—"</p> + +<p>But Hugh waved him back, gravely, and said to the lady—</p> + +<p>"Look upon him. Do you know him?"</p> + +<p>At the sound of Miles's voice the woman had started slightly, and her +cheeks had flushed; she was trembling now. She stood still, during an +impressive pause of several moments; then slowly lifted up her head and +looked into Hendon's eyes with a stony and frightened gaze; the blood +sank out of her face, drop by drop, till nothing remained but the grey +pallor of death; then she said, in a voice as dead as the face, "I know +him not!" and turned, with a moan and a stifled sob, and tottered out of +the room.</p> + +<p>Miles Hendon sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. +After a pause, his brother said to the servants—</p> + +<p>"You have observed him. Do you know him?"</p> + +<p>They shook their heads; then the master said—</p> + +<p>"The servants know you not, sir. I fear there is some mistake. You have +seen that my wife knew you not."</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="25-305"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="25-305.jpg (121K)" src="images/25-305.jpg" height="699" width="727"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Thy WIFE!" In an instant Hugh was pinned to the wall, with an iron grip +about his throat. "Oh, thou fox-hearted slave, I see it all! Thou'st +writ the lying letter thyself, and my stolen bride and goods are its +fruit. There—now get thee gone, lest I shame mine honourable +soldiership with the slaying of so pitiful a mannikin!"</p> + +<p>Hugh, red-faced, and almost suffocated, reeled to the nearest chair, and +commanded the servants to seize and bind the murderous stranger. They +hesitated, and one of them said—</p> + +<p>"He is armed, Sir Hugh, and we are weaponless."</p> + +<p>"Armed! What of it, and ye so many? Upon him, I say!"</p> + +<p>But Miles warned them to be careful what they did, and added—</p> + +<p>"Ye know me of old—I have not changed; come on, an' it like you."</p> + +<p>This reminder did not hearten the servants much; they still held back.</p> + +<p>"Then go, ye paltry cowards, and arm yourselves and guard the doors, +whilst I send one to fetch the watch!" said Hugh. He turned at the +threshold, and said to Miles, "You'll find it to your advantage to offend +not with useless endeavours at escape."</p> + +<p>"Escape? Spare thyself discomfort, an' that is all that troubles thee. +For Miles Hendon is master of Hendon Hall and all its belongings. He +will remain—doubt it not."</p> + +<br><br><hr><br> +<br><br> +<a name="c26"></a> +<a name="26-307"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="26-307.jpg (71K)" src="images/26-307.jpg" height="581" width="722"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Chapter XXVI. Disowned.</p> + +<p>The King sat musing a few moments, then looked up and said—</p> + +<p>"'Tis strange—most strange. I cannot account for it."</p> + +<p>"No, it is not strange, my liege. I know him, and this conduct is but +natural. He was a rascal from his birth."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I spake not of HIM, Sir Miles."</p> + +<p>"Not of him? Then of what? What is it that is strange?"</p> + +<p>"That the King is not missed."</p> + +<p>"How? Which? I doubt I do not understand."</p> + +<p>"Indeed? Doth it not strike you as being passing strange that the land +is not filled with couriers and proclamations describing my person and +making search for me? Is it no matter for commotion and distress that +the Head of the State is gone; that I am vanished away and lost?"</p> + +<p>"Most true, my King, I had forgot." Then Hendon sighed, and muttered to +himself, "Poor ruined mind—still busy with its pathetic dream."</p> + +<p>"But I have a plan that shall right us both—I will write a paper, in +three tongues—Latin, Greek and English—and thou shalt haste away with +it to London in the morning. Give it to none but my uncle, the Lord +Hertford; when he shall see it, he will know and say I wrote it. Then he +will send for me."</p> + +<p>"Might it not be best, my Prince, that we wait here until I prove myself +and make my rights secure to my domains? I should be so much the better +able then to—"</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="26-310"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="26-310.jpg (134K)" src="images/26-310.jpg" height="783" width="726"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The King interrupted him imperiously—</p> + +<p>"Peace! What are thy paltry domains, thy trivial interests, contrasted +with matters which concern the weal of a nation and the integrity of a +throne?" Then, he added, in a gentle voice, as if he were sorry for his +severity, "Obey, and have no fear; I will right thee, I will make thee +whole—yes, more than whole. I shall remember, and requite."</p> + +<p>So saying, he took the pen, and set himself to work. Hendon contemplated +him lovingly a while, then said to himself—</p> + +<p>"An' it were dark, I should think it WAS a king that spoke; there's no +denying it, when the humour's upon on him he doth thunder and lighten +like your true King; now where got he that trick? See him scribble and +scratch away contentedly at his meaningless pot-hooks, fancying them to +be Latin and Greek—and except my wit shall serve me with a lucky device +for diverting him from his purpose, I shall be forced to pretend to post +away to-morrow on this wild errand he hath invented for me."</p> + +<p>The next moment Sir Miles's thoughts had gone back to the recent episode. +So absorbed was he in his musings, that when the King presently handed +him the paper which he had been writing, he received it and pocketed it +without being conscious of the act. "How marvellous strange she acted," +he muttered. "I think she knew me—and I think she did NOT know me. +These opinions do conflict, I perceive it plainly; I cannot reconcile +them, neither can I, by argument, dismiss either of the two, or even +persuade one to outweigh the other. The matter standeth simply thus: +she MUST have known my face, my figure, my voice, for how could it be +otherwise? Yet she SAID she knew me not, and that is proof perfect, for +she cannot lie. But stop—I think I begin to see. Peradventure he hath +influenced her, commanded her, compelled her to lie. That is the +solution. The riddle is unriddled. She seemed dead with fear—yes, she +was under his compulsion. I will seek her; I will find her; now that he +is away, she will speak her true mind. She will remember the old times +when we were little playfellows together, and this will soften her heart, +and she will no more betray me, but will confess me. There is no +treacherous blood in her—no, she was always honest and true. She has +loved me, in those old days—this is my security; for whom one has loved, +one cannot betray."</p> + +<p>He stepped eagerly toward the door; at that moment it opened, and the +Lady Edith entered. She was very pale, but she walked with a firm step, +and her carriage was full of grace and gentle dignity. Her face was as +sad as before.</p> + +<p>Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she +checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he +was. She seated herself, and asked him to do likewise. Thus simply did +she take the sense of old comradeship out of him, and transform him into +a stranger and a guest. The surprise of it, the bewildering +unexpectedness of it, made him begin to question, for a moment, if he WAS +the person he was pretending to be, after all. The Lady Edith said—</p> + +<p>"Sir, I have come to warn you. The mad cannot be persuaded out of their +delusions, perchance; but doubtless they may be persuaded to avoid +perils. I think this dream of yours hath the seeming of honest truth to +you, and therefore is not criminal—but do not tarry here with it; for +here it is dangerous." She looked steadily into Miles's face a moment, +then added, impressively, "It is the more dangerous for that you ARE much +like what our lost lad must have grown to be if he had lived."</p> + +<p>"Heavens, madam, but I AM he!"</p> + +<p>"I truly think you think it, sir. I question not your honesty in that; I +but warn you, that is all. My husband is master in this region; his +power hath hardly any limit; the people prosper or starve, as he wills. +If you resembled not the man whom you profess to be, my husband might bid +you pleasure yourself with your dream in peace; but trust me, I know him +well; I know what he will do; he will say to all that you are but a mad +impostor, and straightway all will echo him." She bent upon Miles that +same steady look once more, and added: "If you WERE Miles Hendon, and he +knew it and all the region knew it—consider what I am saying, weigh it +well—you would stand in the same peril, your punishment would be no less +sure; he would deny you and denounce you, and none would be bold enough +to give you countenance."</p> + +<p>"Most truly I believe it," said Miles, bitterly. "The power that can +command one life-long friend to betray and disown another, and be obeyed, +may well look to be obeyed in quarters where bread and life are on the +stake and no cobweb ties of loyalty and honour are concerned."</p> + + +<br><br> +<a name="26-313"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="26-313.jpg (133K)" src="images/26-313.jpg" height="722" width="720"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>A faint tinge appeared for a moment in the lady's cheek, and she dropped +her eyes to the floor; but her voice betrayed no emotion when she +proceeded—</p> + +<p>"I have warned you—I must still warn you—to go hence. This man will +destroy you, else. He is a tyrant who knows no pity. I, who am his +fettered slave, know this. Poor Miles, and Arthur, and my dear guardian, +Sir Richard, are free of him, and at rest: better that you were with +them than that you bide here in the clutches of this miscreant. Your +pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted +him in his own house: you are ruined if you stay. Go—do not hesitate. +If you lack money, take this purse, I beg of you, and bribe the servants +to let you pass. Oh, be warned, poor soul, and escape while you may."</p> + +<p>Miles declined the purse with a gesture, and rose up and stood before +her.</p> + +<p>"Grant me one thing," he said. "Let your eyes rest upon mine, so that I +may see if they be steady. There—now answer me. Am I Miles Hendon?"</p> + + +<p>"No. I know you not."</p> + +<p>"Swear it!"</p> + +<p>The answer was low, but distinct—</p> + +<p>"I swear."</p> + +<p>"Oh, this passes belief!"</p> + +<p>"Fly! Why will you waste the precious time? Fly, and save yourself."</p> + +<p>At that moment the officers burst into the room, and a violent struggle +began; but Hendon was soon overpowered and dragged away. The King was +taken also, and both were bound and led to prison.</p> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 7. +by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 7. *** + +***** This file should be named 7160-h.htm or 7160-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/7/1/6/7160/ + +Produced by David Widger + +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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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: The Prince and The Pauper, Part 7. + +Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +Release Date: July 4, 2004 [EBook #7160] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 7. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER + + by Mark Twain + + Part 7. + + + + +Chapter XXII. A victim of treachery. + +Once more 'King Foo-foo the First' was roving with the tramps and +outlaws, a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and +sometimes the victim of small spitefulness at the hands of Canty and Hugo +when the Ruffler's back was turned. None but Canty and Hugo really +disliked him. Some of the others liked him, and all admired his pluck +and spirit. During two or three days, Hugo, in whose ward and charge the +King was, did what he covertly could to make the boy uncomfortable; and +at night, during the customary orgies, he amused the company by putting +small indignities upon him--always as if by accident. Twice he stepped +upon the King's toes--accidentally--and the King, as became his royalty, +was contemptuously unconscious of it and indifferent to it; but the third +time Hugo entertained himself in that way, the King felled him to the +ground with a cudgel, to the prodigious delight of the tribe. Hugo, +consumed with anger and shame, sprang up, seized a cudgel, and came at +his small adversary in a fury. Instantly a ring was formed around the +gladiators, and the betting and cheering began. But poor Hugo stood no +chance whatever. His frantic and lubberly 'prentice-work found but a +poor market for itself when pitted against an arm which had been trained +by the first masters of Europe in single-stick, quarter-staff, and every +art and trick of swordsmanship. The little King stood, alert but at +graceful ease, and caught and turned aside the thick rain of blows with a +facility and precision which set the motley on-lookers wild with +admiration; and every now and then, when his practised eye detected an +opening, and a lightning-swift rap upon Hugo's head followed as a result, +the storm of cheers and laughter that swept the place was something +wonderful to hear. At the end of fifteen minutes, Hugo, all battered, +bruised, and the target for a pitiless bombardment of ridicule, slunk +from the field; and the unscathed hero of the fight was seized and borne +aloft upon the shoulders of the joyous rabble to the place of honour +beside the Ruffler, where with vast ceremony he was crowned King of the +Game-Cocks; his meaner title being at the same time solemnly cancelled +and annulled, and a decree of banishment from the gang pronounced against +any who should thenceforth utter it. + +All attempts to make the King serviceable to the troop had failed. He had +stubbornly refused to act; moreover, he was always trying to escape. He +had been thrust into an unwatched kitchen, the first day of his return; +he not only came forth empty-handed, but tried to rouse the housemates. +He was sent out with a tinker to help him at his work; he would not work; +moreover, he threatened the tinker with his own soldering-iron; and +finally both Hugo and the tinker found their hands full with the mere +matter of keeping his from getting away. He delivered the thunders of +his royalty upon the heads of all who hampered his liberties or tried to +force him to service. He was sent out, in Hugo's charge, in company with +a slatternly woman and a diseased baby, to beg; but the result was not +encouraging--he declined to plead for the mendicants, or be a party to +their cause in any way. + +Thus several days went by; and the miseries of this tramping life, and +the weariness and sordidness and meanness and vulgarity of it, became +gradually and steadily so intolerable to the captive that he began at +last to feel that his release from the hermit's knife must prove only a +temporary respite from death, at best. + +But at night, in his dreams, these things were forgotten, and he was on +his throne, and master again. This, of course, intensified the +sufferings of the awakening--so the mortifications of each succeeding +morning of the few that passed between his return to bondage and the +combat with Hugo, grew bitterer and bitterer, and harder and harder to +bear. + +The morning after that combat, Hugo got up with a heart filled with +vengeful purposes against the King. He had two plans, in particular. +One was to inflict upon the lad what would be, to his proud spirit and +'imagined' royalty, a peculiar humiliation; and if he failed to +accomplish this, his other plan was to put a crime of some kind upon the +King, and then betray him into the implacable clutches of the law. + +In pursuance of the first plan, he purposed to put a 'clime' upon the +King's leg; rightly judging that that would mortify him to the last and +perfect degree; and as soon as the clime should operate, he meant to get +Canty's help, and FORCE the King to expose his leg in the highway and beg +for alms. 'Clime' was the cant term for a sore, artificially created. +To make a clime, the operator made a paste or poultice of unslaked lime, +soap, and the rust of old iron, and spread it upon a piece of leather, +which was then bound tightly upon the leg. This would presently fret off +the skin, and make the flesh raw and angry-looking; blood was then rubbed +upon the limb, which, being fully dried, took on a dark and repulsive +colour. Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless +way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the +compassion of the passer-by. {8} + +Hugo got the help of the tinker whom the King had cowed with the +soldering-iron; they took the boy out on a tinkering tramp, and as soon +as they were out of sight of the camp they threw him down and the tinker +held him while Hugo bound the poultice tight and fast upon his leg. + +The King raged and stormed, and promised to hang the two the moment the +sceptre was in his hand again; but they kept a firm grip upon him and +enjoyed his impotent struggling and jeered at his threats. This +continued until the poultice began to bite; and in no long time its work +would have been perfected, if there had been no interruption. But there +was; for about this time the 'slave' who had made the speech denouncing +England's laws, appeared on the scene, and put an end to the enterprise, +and stripped off the poultice and bandage. + +The King wanted to borrow his deliverer's cudgel and warm the jackets of +the two rascals on the spot; but the man said no, it would bring trouble +--leave the matter till night; the whole tribe being together, then, the +outside world would not venture to interfere or interrupt. He marched +the party back to camp and reported the affair to the Ruffler, who +listened, pondered, and then decided that the King should not be again +detailed to beg, since it was plain he was worthy of something higher and +better--wherefore, on the spot he promoted him from the mendicant rank +and appointed him to steal! + +Hugo was overjoyed. He had already tried to make the King steal, and +failed; but there would be no more trouble of that sort, now, for of +course the King would not dream of defying a distinct command delivered +directly from head-quarters. So he planned a raid for that very +afternoon, purposing to get the King in the law's grip in the course of +it; and to do it, too, with such ingenious strategy, that it should seem +to be accidental and unintentional; for the King of the Game-Cocks was +popular now, and the gang might not deal over-gently with an unpopular +member who played so serious a treachery upon him as the delivering him +over to the common enemy, the law. + +Very well. All in good time Hugo strolled off to a neighbouring village +with his prey; and the two drifted slowly up and down one street after +another, the one watching sharply for a sure chance to achieve his evil +purpose, and the other watching as sharply for a chance to dart away and +get free of his infamous captivity for ever. + +Both threw away some tolerably fair-looking opportunities; for both, in +their secret hearts, were resolved to make absolutely sure work this +time, and neither meant to allow his fevered desires to seduce him into +any venture that had much uncertainty about it. + +Hugo's chance came first. For at last a woman approached who carried a +fat package of some sort in a basket. Hugo's eyes sparkled with sinful +pleasure as he said to himself, "Breath o' my life, an' I can but put +THAT upon him, 'tis good-den and God keep thee, King of the Game-Cocks!" +He waited and watched--outwardly patient, but inwardly consuming with +excitement--till the woman had passed by, and the time was ripe; then +said, in a low voice-- + +"Tarry here till I come again," and darted stealthily after the prey. + +The King's heart was filled with joy--he could make his escape, now, if +Hugo's quest only carried him far enough away. + +But he was to have no such luck. Hugo crept behind the woman, snatched +the package, and came running back, wrapping it in an old piece of +blanket which he carried on his arm. The hue and cry was raised in a +moment, by the woman, who knew her loss by the lightening of her burden, +although she had not seen the pilfering done. Hugo thrust the bundle +into the King's hands without halting, saying-- + +"Now speed ye after me with the rest, and cry 'Stop thief!' but mind ye +lead them astray!" + +The next moment Hugo turned a corner and darted down a crooked alley--and +in another moment or two he lounged into view again, looking innocent and +indifferent, and took up a position behind a post to watch results. + +The insulted King threw the bundle on the ground; and the blanket fell +away from it just as the woman arrived, with an augmenting crowd at her +heels; she seized the King's wrist with one hand, snatched up her bundle +with the other, and began to pour out a tirade of abuse upon the boy +while he struggled, without success, to free himself from her grip. + +Hugo had seen enough--his enemy was captured and the law would get him, +now--so he slipped away, jubilant and chuckling, and wended campwards, +framing a judicious version of the matter to give to the Ruffler's crew +as he strode along. + +The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and +then cried out in vexation-- + +"Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy +paltry goods." + +The crowd closed around, threatening the King and calling him names; a +brawny blacksmith in leather apron, and sleeves rolled to his elbows, +made a reach for him, saying he would trounce him well, for a lesson; but +just then a long sword flashed in the air and fell with convincing force +upon the man's arm, flat side down, the fantastic owner of it remarking +pleasantly, at the same time-- + +"Marry, good souls, let us proceed gently, not with ill blood and +uncharitable words. This is matter for the law's consideration, not +private and unofficial handling. Loose thy hold from the boy, goodwife." + +The blacksmith averaged the stalwart soldier with a glance, then went +muttering away, rubbing his arm; the woman released the boy's wrist +reluctantly; the crowd eyed the stranger unlovingly, but prudently closed +their mouths. The King sprang to his deliverer's side, with flushed +cheeks and sparkling eyes, exclaiming-- + +"Thou hast lagged sorely, but thou comest in good season, now, Sir Miles; +carve me this rabble to rags!" + + + +Chapter XXIII. The Prince a prisoner. + +Hendon forced back a smile, and bent down and whispered in the King's +ear-- + +"Softly, softly, my prince, wag thy tongue warily--nay, suffer it not to +wag at all. Trust in me--all shall go well in the end." Then he added to +himself: "SIR Miles! Bless me, I had totally forgot I was a knight! +Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon +his quaint and crazy fancies! . . . An empty and foolish title is mine, +and yet it is something to have deserved it; for I think it is more +honour to be held worthy to be a spectre-knight in his Kingdom of Dreams +and Shadows, than to be held base enough to be an earl in some of the +REAL kingdoms of this world." + +The crowd fell apart to admit a constable, who approached and was about +to lay his hand upon the King's shoulder, when Hendon said-- + +"Gently, good friend, withhold your hand--he shall go peaceably; I am +responsible for that. Lead on, we will follow." + +The officer led, with the woman and her bundle; Miles and the King +followed after, with the crowd at their heels. The King was inclined to +rebel; but Hendon said to him in a low voice-- + +"Reflect, Sire--your laws are the wholesome breath of your own royalty; +shall their source resist them, yet require the branches to respect them? +Apparently one of these laws has been broken; when the King is on his +throne again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was +seemingly a private person he loyally sank the king in the citizen and +submitted to its authority?" + +"Thou art right; say no more; thou shalt see that whatsoever the King of +England requires a subject to suffer, under the law, he will himself +suffer while he holdeth the station of a subject." + +When the woman was called upon to testify before the justice of the +peace, she swore that the small prisoner at the bar was the person who +had committed the theft; there was none able to show the contrary, so the +King stood convicted. The bundle was now unrolled, and when the contents +proved to be a plump little dressed pig, the judge looked troubled, +whilst Hendon turned pale, and his body was thrilled with an electric +shiver of dismay; but the King remained unmoved, protected by his +ignorance. The judge meditated, during an ominous pause, then turned to +the woman, with the question-- + +"What dost thou hold this property to be worth?" + +The woman courtesied and replied-- + +"Three shillings and eightpence, your worship--I could not abate a penny +and set forth the value honestly." + +The justice glanced around uncomfortably upon the crowd, then nodded to +the constable, and said-- + +"Clear the court and close the doors." + +It was done. None remained but the two officials, the accused, the +accuser, and Miles Hendon. This latter was rigid and colourless, and on +his forehead big drops of cold sweat gathered, broke and blended +together, and trickled down his face. The judge turned to the woman +again, and said, in a compassionate voice-- + +"'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for +these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an +evil face--but when hunger driveth--Good woman! dost know that when one +steals a thing above the value of thirteenpence ha'penny the law saith he +shall HANG for it?" + +The little King started, wide-eyed with consternation, but controlled +himself and held his peace; but not so the woman. She sprang to her +feet, shaking with fright, and cried out-- + +"Oh, good lack, what have I done! God-a-mercy, I would not hang the poor +thing for the whole world! Ah, save me from this, your worship--what +shall I do, what CAN I do?" + +The justice maintained his judicial composure, and simply said-- + +"Doubtless it is allowable to revise the value, since it is not yet writ +upon the record." + +"Then in God's name call the pig eightpence, and heaven bless the day +that freed my conscience of this awesome thing!" + +Miles Hendon forgot all decorum in his delight; and surprised the King +and wounded his dignity, by throwing his arms around him and hugging him. +The woman made her grateful adieux and started away with her pig; and +when the constable opened the door for her, he followed her out into the +narrow hall. The justice proceeded to write in his record book. Hendon, +always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the +woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. He +heard a conversation to this effect-- + +"It is a fat pig, and promises good eating; I will buy it of thee; here +is the eightpence." + +"Eightpence, indeed! Thou'lt do no such thing. It cost me three +shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old +Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. A fig for thy +eightpence!" + +"Stands the wind in that quarter? Thou wast under oath, and so swore +falsely when thou saidst the value was but eightpence. Come straightway +back with me before his worship, and answer for the crime!--and then the +lad will hang." + +"There, there, dear heart, say no more, I am content. Give me the +eightpence, and hold thy peace about the matter." + +The woman went off crying: Hendon slipped back into the court room, and +the constable presently followed, after hiding his prize in some +convenient place. The justice wrote a while longer, then read the King a +wise and kindly lecture, and sentenced him to a short imprisonment in the +common jail, to be followed by a public flogging. The astounded King +opened his mouth, and was probably going to order the good judge to be +beheaded on the spot; but he caught a warning sign from Hendon, and +succeeded in closing his mouth again before he lost anything out of it. +Hendon took him by the hand, now, made reverence to the justice, and the +two departed in the wake of the constable toward the jail. The moment +the street was reached, the inflamed monarch halted, snatched away his +hand, and exclaimed-- + +"Idiot, dost imagine I will enter a common jail ALIVE?" + +Hendon bent down and said, somewhat sharply-- + +"WILL you trust in me? Peace! and forbear to worsen our chances with +dangerous speech. What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, +thou canst not alter it; therefore wait, and be patient--'twill be time +enow to rail or rejoice when what is to happen has happened." {1} + + + +Chapter XXIV. The escape. + +The short winter day was nearly ended. The streets were deserted, save +for a few random stragglers, and these hurried straight along, with the +intent look of people who were only anxious to accomplish their errands +as quickly as possible, and then snugly house themselves from the rising +wind and the gathering twilight. They looked neither to the right nor to +the left; they paid no attention to our party, they did not even seem to +see them. Edward the Sixth wondered if the spectacle of a king on his way +to jail had ever encountered such marvellous indifference before. +By-and-by the constable arrived at a deserted market-square, and +proceeded to cross it. When he had reached the middle of it, Hendon +laid his hand upon his arm, and said in a low voice-- + +"Bide a moment, good sir, there is none in hearing, and I would say a +word to thee." + +"My duty forbids it, sir; prithee hinder me not, the night comes on." + +"Stay, nevertheless, for the matter concerns thee nearly. Turn thy back +a moment and seem not to see: LET THIS POOR LAD ESCAPE." + +"This to me, sir! I arrest thee in--" + +"Nay, be not too hasty. See thou be careful and commit no foolish +error"--then he shut his voice down to a whisper, and said in the man's +ear--"the pig thou hast purchased for eightpence may cost thee thy neck, +man!" + +The poor constable, taken by surprise, was speechless, at first, then +found his tongue and fell to blustering and threatening; but Hendon was +tranquil, and waited with patience till his breath was spent; then said-- + +"I have a liking to thee, friend, and would not willingly see thee come +to harm. Observe, I heard it all--every word. I will prove it to thee." +Then he repeated the conversation which the officer and the woman had had +together in the hall, word for word, and ended with-- + +"There--have I set it forth correctly? Should not I be able to set it +forth correctly before the judge, if occasion required?" + +The man was dumb with fear and distress, for a moment; then he rallied, +and said with forced lightness-- + +"'Tis making a mighty matter, indeed, out of a jest; I but plagued the +woman for mine amusement." + +"Kept you the woman's pig for amusement?" + +The man answered sharply-- + +"Nought else, good sir--I tell thee 'twas but a jest." + +"I do begin to believe thee," said Hendon, with a perplexing mixture of +mockery and half-conviction in his tone; "but tarry thou here a moment +whilst I run and ask his worship--for nathless, he being a man +experienced in law, in jests, in--" + +He was moving away, still talking; the constable hesitated, fidgeted, +spat out an oath or two, then cried out-- + +"Hold, hold, good sir--prithee wait a little--the judge! Why, man, he +hath no more sympathy with a jest than hath a dead corpse!--come, and we +will speak further. Ods body! I seem to be in evil case--and all for an +innocent and thoughtless pleasantry. I am a man of family; and my wife +and little ones--List to reason, good your worship: what wouldst thou +of me?" + +"Only that thou be blind and dumb and paralytic whilst one may count a +hundred thousand--counting slowly," said Hendon, with the expression of a +man who asks but a reasonable favour, and that a very little one. + +"It is my destruction!" said the constable despairingly. "Ah, be +reasonable, good sir; only look at this matter, on all its sides, and see +how mere a jest it is--how manifestly and how plainly it is so. And even +if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e'en the +grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning +from the judge's lips." + +Hendon replied with a solemnity which chilled the air about him-- + +"This jest of thine hath a name, in law,--wot you what it is?" + +"I knew it not! Peradventure I have been unwise. I never dreamed it had +a name--ah, sweet heaven, I thought it was original." + +"Yes, it hath a name. In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis +lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi." + +"Ah, my God!" + +"And the penalty is death!" + +"God be merciful to me a sinner!" + +"By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, +thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a +trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive +barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem +expurgatis in statu quo--and the penalty is death by the halter, without +ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy." + +"Bear me up, bear me up, sweet sir, my legs do fail me! Be thou +merciful--spare me this doom, and I will turn my back and see nought that +shall happen." + +"Good! now thou'rt wise and reasonable. And thou'lt restore the pig?" + +"I will, I will indeed--nor ever touch another, though heaven send it and +an archangel fetch it. Go--I am blind for thy sake--I see nothing. I +will say thou didst break in and wrest the prisoner from my hands by +force. It is but a crazy, ancient door--I will batter it down myself +betwixt midnight and the morning." + +"Do it, good soul, no harm will come of it; the judge hath a loving +charity for this poor lad, and will shed no tears and break no jailer's +bones for his escape." + + + +Chapter XXV. Hendon Hall. + +As soon as Hendon and the King were out of sight of the constable, his +Majesty was instructed to hurry to a certain place outside the town, and +wait there, whilst Hendon should go to the inn and settle his account. +Half an hour later the two friends were blithely jogging eastward on +Hendon's sorry steeds. The King was warm and comfortable, now, for he +had cast his rags and clothed himself in the second-hand suit which +Hendon had bought on London Bridge. + +Hendon wished to guard against over-fatiguing the boy; he judged that +hard journeys, irregular meals, and illiberal measures of sleep would be +bad for his crazed mind; whilst rest, regularity, and moderate exercise +would be pretty sure to hasten its cure; he longed to see the stricken +intellect made well again and its diseased visions driven out of the +tormented little head; therefore he resolved to move by easy stages +toward the home whence he had so long been banished, instead of obeying +the impulse of his impatience and hurrying along night and day. + +When he and the King had journeyed about ten miles, they reached a +considerable village, and halted there for the night, at a good inn. +The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, +while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for +bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the +door, rolled up in a blanket. + +The next day, and the day after, they jogged lazily along talking over +the adventures they had met since their separation, and mightily enjoying +each other's narratives. Hendon detailed all his wide wanderings in +search of the King, and described how the archangel had led him a fool's +journey all over the forest, and taken him back to the hut, finally, when +he found he could not get rid of him. Then--he said--the old man went +into the bedchamber and came staggering back looking broken-hearted, and +saying he had expected to find that the boy had returned and laid down in +there to rest, but it was not so. Hendon had waited at the hut all day; +hope of the King's return died out, then, and he departed upon the quest +again. + +"And old Sanctum Sanctorum WAS truly sorry your highness came not back," +said Hendon; "I saw it in his face." + +"Marry I will never doubt THAT!" said the King--and then told his own +story; after which, Hendon was sorry he had not destroyed the archangel. + +During the last day of the trip, Hendon's spirits were soaring. His +tongue ran constantly. He talked about his old father, and his brother +Arthur, and told of many things which illustrated their high and generous +characters; he went into loving frenzies over his Edith, and was so +glad-hearted that he was even able to say some gentle and brotherly +things about Hugh. He dwelt a deal on the coming meeting at Hendon Hall; +what a surprise it would be to everybody, and what an outburst of +thanksgiving and delight there would be. + +It was a fair region, dotted with cottages and orchards, and the road led +through broad pasture lands whose receding expanses, marked with gentle +elevations and depressions, suggested the swelling and subsiding +undulations of the sea. In the afternoon the returning prodigal made +constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock +he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home. At +last he was successful, and cried out excitedly-- + +"There is the village, my Prince, and there is the Hall close by! You may +see the towers from here; and that wood there--that is my father's park. +Ah, NOW thou'lt know what state and grandeur be! A house with seventy +rooms--think of that!--and seven and twenty servants! A brave lodging +for such as we, is it not so? Come, let us speed--my impatience will not +brook further delay." + +All possible hurry was made; still, it was after three o'clock before the +village was reached. The travellers scampered through it, Hendon's +tongue going all the time. "Here is the church--covered with the same +ivy--none gone, none added." "Yonder is the inn, the old Red Lion,--and +yonder is the market-place." "Here is the Maypole, and here the pump +--nothing is altered; nothing but the people, at any rate; ten years make a +change in people; some of these I seem to know, but none know me." So +his chat ran on. The end of the village was soon reached; then the +travellers struck into a crooked, narrow road, walled in with tall +hedges, and hurried briskly along it for half a mile, then passed into a +vast flower garden through an imposing gateway, whose huge stone pillars +bore sculptured armorial devices. A noble mansion was before them. + +"Welcome to Hendon Hall, my King!" exclaimed Miles. "Ah, 'tis a great +day! My father and my brother, and the Lady Edith will be so mad with +joy that they will have eyes and tongue for none but me in the first +transports of the meeting, and so thou'lt seem but coldly welcomed--but +mind it not; 'twill soon seem otherwise; for when I say thou art my ward, +and tell them how costly is my love for thee, thou'lt see them take thee +to their breasts for Miles Hendon's sake, and make their house and hearts +thy home for ever after!" + +The next moment Hendon sprang to the ground before the great door, helped +the King down, then took him by the hand and rushed within. A few steps +brought him to a spacious apartment; he entered, seated the King with +more hurry than ceremony, then ran toward a young man who sat at a +writing-table in front of a generous fire of logs. + +"Embrace me, Hugh," he cried, "and say thou'rt glad I am come again! and +call our father, for home is not home till I shall touch his hand, and +see his face, and hear his voice once more!" + +But Hugh only drew back, after betraying a momentary surprise, and bent a +grave stare upon the intruder--a stare which indicated somewhat of +offended dignity, at first, then changed, in response to some inward +thought or purpose, to an expression of marvelling curiosity, mixed with +a real or assumed compassion. Presently he said, in a mild voice-- + +"Thy wits seem touched, poor stranger; doubtless thou hast suffered +privations and rude buffetings at the world's hands; thy looks and dress +betoken it. Whom dost thou take me to be?" + +"Take thee? Prithee for whom else than whom thou art? I take thee to be +Hugh Hendon," said Miles, sharply. + +The other continued, in the same soft tone-- + +"And whom dost thou imagine thyself to be?" + +"Imagination hath nought to do with it! Dost thou pretend thou knowest +me not for thy brother Miles Hendon?" + +An expression of pleased surprise flitted across Hugh's face, and he +exclaimed-- + +"What! thou art not jesting? can the dead come to life? God be praised +if it be so! Our poor lost boy restored to our arms after all these +cruel years! Ah, it seems too good to be true, it IS too good to be +true--I charge thee, have pity, do not trifle with me! Quick--come to +the light--let me scan thee well!" + +He seized Miles by the arm, dragged him to the window, and began to +devour him from head to foot with his eyes, turning him this way and +that, and stepping briskly around him and about him to prove him from all +points of view; whilst the returned prodigal, all aglow with gladness, +smiled, laughed, and kept nodding his head and saying-- + +"Go on, brother, go on, and fear not; thou'lt find nor limb nor feature +that cannot bide the test. Scour and scan me to thy content, my good old +Hugh--I am indeed thy old Miles, thy same old Miles, thy lost brother, +is't not so? Ah, 'tis a great day--I SAID 'twas a great day! Give me +thy hand, give me thy cheek--lord, I am like to die of very joy!" + +He was about to throw himself upon his brother; but Hugh put up his hand +in dissent, then dropped his chin mournfully upon his breast, saying with +emotion-- + +"Ah, God of his mercy give me strength to bear this grievous +disappointment!" + +Miles, amazed, could not speak for a moment; then he found his tongue, +and cried out-- + +"WHAT disappointment? Am I not thy brother?" + +Hugh shook his head sadly, and said-- + +"I pray heaven it may prove so, and that other eyes may find the +resemblances that are hid from mine. Alack, I fear me the letter spoke +but too truly." + +"What letter?" + +"One that came from over sea, some six or seven years ago. It said my +brother died in battle." + +"It was a lie! Call thy father--he will know me." + +"One may not call the dead." + +"Dead?" Miles's voice was subdued, and his lips trembled. "My father +dead!--oh, this is heavy news. Half my new joy is withered now. Prithee +let me see my brother Arthur--he will know me; he will know me and +console me." + +"He, also, is dead." + +"God be merciful to me, a stricken man! Gone,--both gone--the worthy +taken and the worthless spared, in me! Ah! I crave your mercy!--do not +say the Lady Edith--" + +"Is dead? No, she lives." + +"Then, God be praised, my joy is whole again! Speed thee, brother--let +her come to me! An' SHE say I am not myself--but she will not; no, no, +SHE will know me, I were a fool to doubt it. Bring her--bring the old +servants; they, too, will know me." + +"All are gone but five--Peter, Halsey, David, Bernard, and Margaret." + +So saying, Hugh left the room. Miles stood musing a while, then began to +walk the floor, muttering-- + +"The five arch-villains have survived the two-and-twenty leal and honest +--'tis an odd thing." + +He continued walking back and forth, muttering to himself; he had +forgotten the King entirely. By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and +with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were +capable of being interpreted ironically-- + +"Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose +identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. Thou hast company." + +"Ah, my King," cried Hendon, colouring slightly, "do not thou condemn me +--wait, and thou shalt see. I am no impostor--she will say it; you shall +hear it from the sweetest lips in England. I an impostor? Why, I know +this old hall, these pictures of my ancestors, and all these things that +are about us, as a child knoweth its own nursery. Here was I born and +bred, my lord; I speak the truth; I would not deceive thee; and should +none else believe, I pray thee do not THOU doubt me--I could not bear +it." + +"I do not doubt thee," said the King, with a childlike simplicity and +faith. + +"I thank thee out of my heart!" exclaimed Hendon with a fervency which +showed that he was touched. The King added, with the same gentle +simplicity-- + +"Dost thou doubt ME?" + +A guilty confusion seized upon Hendon, and he was grateful that the door +opened to admit Hugh, at that moment, and saved him the necessity of +replying. + +A beautiful lady, richly clothed, followed Hugh, and after her came +several liveried servants. The lady walked slowly, with her head bowed +and her eyes fixed upon the floor. The face was unspeakably sad. Miles +Hendon sprang forward, crying out-- + +"Oh, my Edith, my darling--" + +But Hugh waved him back, gravely, and said to the lady-- + +"Look upon him. Do you know him?" + +At the sound of Miles's voice the woman had started slightly, and her +cheeks had flushed; she was trembling now. She stood still, during an +impressive pause of several moments; then slowly lifted up her head and +looked into Hendon's eyes with a stony and frightened gaze; the blood +sank out of her face, drop by drop, till nothing remained but the grey +pallor of death; then she said, in a voice as dead as the face, "I know +him not!" and turned, with a moan and a stifled sob, and tottered out of +the room. + +Miles Hendon sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. +After a pause, his brother said to the servants-- + +"You have observed him. Do you know him?" + +They shook their heads; then the master said-- + +"The servants know you not, sir. I fear there is some mistake. You have +seen that my wife knew you not." + +"Thy WIFE!" In an instant Hugh was pinned to the wall, with an iron grip +about his throat. "Oh, thou fox-hearted slave, I see it all! Thou'st +writ the lying letter thyself, and my stolen bride and goods are its +fruit. There--now get thee gone, lest I shame mine honourable +soldiership with the slaying of so pitiful a mannikin!" + +Hugh, red-faced, and almost suffocated, reeled to the nearest chair, and +commanded the servants to seize and bind the murderous stranger. They +hesitated, and one of them said-- + +"He is armed, Sir Hugh, and we are weaponless." + +"Armed! What of it, and ye so many? Upon him, I say!" + +But Miles warned them to be careful what they did, and added-- + +"Ye know me of old--I have not changed; come on, an' it like you." + +This reminder did not hearten the servants much; they still held back. + +"Then go, ye paltry cowards, and arm yourselves and guard the doors, +whilst I send one to fetch the watch!" said Hugh. He turned at the +threshold, and said to Miles, "You'll find it to your advantage to offend +not with useless endeavours at escape." + +"Escape? Spare thyself discomfort, an' that is all that troubles thee. +For Miles Hendon is master of Hendon Hall and all its belongings. He +will remain--doubt it not." + + + +Chapter XXVI. Disowned. + +The King sat musing a few moments, then looked up and said-- + +"'Tis strange--most strange. I cannot account for it." + +"No, it is not strange, my liege. I know him, and this conduct is but +natural. He was a rascal from his birth." + +"Oh, I spake not of HIM, Sir Miles." + +"Not of him? Then of what? What is it that is strange?" + +"That the King is not missed." + +"How? Which? I doubt I do not understand." + +"Indeed? Doth it not strike you as being passing strange that the land +is not filled with couriers and proclamations describing my person and +making search for me? Is it no matter for commotion and distress that +the Head of the State is gone; that I am vanished away and lost?" + +"Most true, my King, I had forgot." Then Hendon sighed, and muttered to +himself, "Poor ruined mind--still busy with its pathetic dream." + +"But I have a plan that shall right us both--I will write a paper, in +three tongues--Latin, Greek and English--and thou shalt haste away with +it to London in the morning. Give it to none but my uncle, the Lord +Hertford; when he shall see it, he will know and say I wrote it. Then he +will send for me." + +"Might it not be best, my Prince, that we wait here until I prove myself +and make my rights secure to my domains? I should be so much the better +able then to--" + +The King interrupted him imperiously-- + +"Peace! What are thy paltry domains, thy trivial interests, contrasted +with matters which concern the weal of a nation and the integrity of a +throne?" Then, he added, in a gentle voice, as if he were sorry for his +severity, "Obey, and have no fear; I will right thee, I will make thee +whole--yes, more than whole. I shall remember, and requite." + +So saying, he took the pen, and set himself to work. Hendon contemplated +him lovingly a while, then said to himself-- + +"An' it were dark, I should think it WAS a king that spoke; there's no +denying it, when the humour's upon on him he doth thunder and lighten +like your true King; now where got he that trick? See him scribble and +scratch away contentedly at his meaningless pot-hooks, fancying them to +be Latin and Greek--and except my wit shall serve me with a lucky device +for diverting him from his purpose, I shall be forced to pretend to post +away to-morrow on this wild errand he hath invented for me." + +The next moment Sir Miles's thoughts had gone back to the recent episode. +So absorbed was he in his musings, that when the King presently handed +him the paper which he had been writing, he received it and pocketed it +without being conscious of the act. "How marvellous strange she acted," +he muttered. "I think she knew me--and I think she did NOT know me. +These opinions do conflict, I perceive it plainly; I cannot reconcile +them, neither can I, by argument, dismiss either of the two, or even +persuade one to outweigh the other. The matter standeth simply thus: +she MUST have known my face, my figure, my voice, for how could it be +otherwise? Yet she SAID she knew me not, and that is proof perfect, for +she cannot lie. But stop--I think I begin to see. Peradventure he hath +influenced her, commanded her, compelled her to lie. That is the +solution. The riddle is unriddled. She seemed dead with fear--yes, she +was under his compulsion. I will seek her; I will find her; now that he +is away, she will speak her true mind. She will remember the old times +when we were little playfellows together, and this will soften her heart, +and she will no more betray me, but will confess me. There is no +treacherous blood in her--no, she was always honest and true. She has +loved me, in those old days--this is my security; for whom one has loved, +one cannot betray." + +He stepped eagerly toward the door; at that moment it opened, and the +Lady Edith entered. She was very pale, but she walked with a firm step, +and her carriage was full of grace and gentle dignity. Her face was as +sad as before. + +Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she +checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he +was. She seated herself, and asked him to do likewise. Thus simply did +she take the sense of old comradeship out of him, and transform him into +a stranger and a guest. The surprise of it, the bewildering +unexpectedness of it, made him begin to question, for a moment, if he WAS +the person he was pretending to be, after all. The Lady Edith said-- + +"Sir, I have come to warn you. The mad cannot be persuaded out of their +delusions, perchance; but doubtless they may be persuaded to avoid +perils. I think this dream of yours hath the seeming of honest truth to +you, and therefore is not criminal--but do not tarry here with it; for +here it is dangerous." She looked steadily into Miles's face a moment, +then added, impressively, "It is the more dangerous for that you ARE much +like what our lost lad must have grown to be if he had lived." + +"Heavens, madam, but I AM he!" + +"I truly think you think it, sir. I question not your honesty in that; I +but warn you, that is all. My husband is master in this region; his +power hath hardly any limit; the people prosper or starve, as he wills. +If you resembled not the man whom you profess to be, my husband might bid +you pleasure yourself with your dream in peace; but trust me, I know him +well; I know what he will do; he will say to all that you are but a mad +impostor, and straightway all will echo him." She bent upon Miles that +same steady look once more, and added: "If you WERE Miles Hendon, and he +knew it and all the region knew it--consider what I am saying, weigh it +well--you would stand in the same peril, your punishment would be no less +sure; he would deny you and denounce you, and none would be bold enough +to give you countenance." + +"Most truly I believe it," said Miles, bitterly. "The power that can +command one life-long friend to betray and disown another, and be obeyed, +may well look to be obeyed in quarters where bread and life are on the +stake and no cobweb ties of loyalty and honour are concerned." + +A faint tinge appeared for a moment in the lady's cheek, and she dropped +her eyes to the floor; but her voice betrayed no emotion when she +proceeded-- + +"I have warned you--I must still warn you--to go hence. This man will +destroy you, else. He is a tyrant who knows no pity. I, who am his +fettered slave, know this. Poor Miles, and Arthur, and my dear guardian, +Sir Richard, are free of him, and at rest: better that you were with +them than that you bide here in the clutches of this miscreant. Your +pretensions are a menace to his title and possessions; you have assaulted +him in his own house: you are ruined if you stay. Go--do not hesitate. +If you lack money, take this purse, I beg of you, and bribe the servants +to let you pass. Oh, be warned, poor soul, and escape while you may." + +Miles declined the purse with a gesture, and rose up and stood before +her. + +"Grant me one thing," he said. "Let your eyes rest upon mine, so that I +may see if they be steady. There--now answer me. Am I Miles Hendon?" + +"No. I know you not." + +"Swear it!" + +The answer was low, but distinct-- + +"I swear." + +"Oh, this passes belief!" + +"Fly! Why will you waste the precious time? Fly, and save yourself." + +At that moment the officers burst into the room, and a violent struggle +began; but Hendon was soon overpowered and dragged away. The King was +taken also, and both were bound and led to prison. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prince and The Pauper, Part 7. +by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, PART 7. *** + +***** This file should be named 7160.txt or 7160.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/7/1/6/7160/ + +Produced by David Widger + +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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