I have been engaged, as you know, in stirring up rebellion to check the iniquities and persecutions that are toward in a land I love. I'll not weary you with details. Time was needed for this as for all things, and by next spring, perhaps, had matters gone well, this vineyard that so carefully and secretly I have been tending, would have been, maybe, in condition to bear fruit. Even now, in the hour of my flight, I learn that others have come to force this delicate growth into sudden maturity. There! Soon ripe, soon rotten. The Duke of Monmouth has landed at Lyme this morning. I am riding to him."
"To what end?" she cried, and he saw in her face a dismay that amounted almost to fear, and he wondered was it for him.
"To place my sword at his service Were I not encompassed by this ruin, I should not have stirred a foot in that direction - so rash, so foredoomed to failure is this invasion. As it is," - he shrugged and laughed - "it is the only hope - all forlorn though it may be - for me.
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