"
"So did I, Roger. You see, that matter of our getting Glendower's
daughters away, uninjured, has borne good fruit."
"It has indeed," Roger agreed. "I thought it much more likely, too,
that it would have gone the other way."
"Be sure you keep a silent tongue as to that, Roger; and remember that
our story is, that I have been put at knightly ransom, and on the
condition that I will never serve in Wales again. When we once get
across the border we will ride straight for Northumberland, without
going near Ludlow. I observed that the king much doubted the Mortimers,
and were we to return there, and the news came to his ears, he might
take it as a proof that there was an understanding between Glendower
and Mortimer; and that it was to this that leniency, such as had been
shown to no other prisoners, was due; whereas, if we go straight to
Percy, 'tis not likely that the matter will ever come to his hearing,
and at any rate, if it did so, he would scarce connect Mortimer with
our escape."
"I understand, Sir Oswald; and will, you may be sure, keep silent as to
aught beyond what you have bade me say."
Two days' journey brought them to the house of Glendower's married
daughter.
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