would marry you blithely; and, live or die, I love you."

She answered nothing.

"Come," he said, "speak up, Jack. Come, be a good maid, and say ye love

me!"

"Why, Dick," she cried, "would I be here?"

Well, see ye here," continued Dick, "an we but escape whole we'll marry;

and an we're to die, we die, and there's an end on't. But now that I

think, how found ye my chamber?"

"I asked it of Dame Hatch," she answered.

"Well, the dame's staunch," he answered; "she'll not tell upon you. We

have time before us."

And just then, as if to contradict his words, feet came down the

corridor, and a fist beat roughly on the door.

Here!" cried a voice. "Open, Master Dick; open!" Dick neither moved

nor answered.

"It is all over," said the girl; and she put her arms about Dick's neck.

One after another, men came trooping to the door. Then Sir Daniel

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