it. Coming down from the mountains,
with his pipe in his mouth, his fowling piece over his shoulder, and
his birds hanging from his belt, he would sometimes contrive to get
up into the yard at the back, fling down a brace of pheasants on to
the kitchen floor, and go off again without speaking to anyone.
Greeba had been too smart for him this time, and he was standing
before her with a look of guilt when Chalse came up on his errand.
Then Jason heard all, and straightway offered to go with the
Governor, and never let wit of his intention.

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" said Greeba, and she looked up into his
bronzed face and smiled proudly, and her long lashes blinked over her
beautiful eyes. Her glance seemed to go through him. It seemed to go
through all nature; and fill the whole world with a new, glad light.

The evil day came, and the Governor was as good as his word. He went
away to Peel, where the first seizure was to be made. There a great
crowd had already gathered, and at sight of Adam's face a great shout
went up. The factor heard it, as he came on from Bishop's Court with
a troop of his people about him. "I'll mak' short shrift of a' that,
the noo," he said. When he came up he ordered that a cow house door
should be opened and the cattle brought out for instant sale, for he
had an auctioneer by his side. But the door was found to be locked,
and he shouted to his men to leap on to the roof and strip off the
thatch. Then the Governor cried "Stop," and called on the factor to
desist, for though he might seize the cattle there would be no sale
that day, since no man there present would take the bread out of the
mouths of the poor.

"Then they shall try the milk," said the factor, with a hoarse laugh,
and at the same moment the Bishop's seneschal, a briefless advocate,
stepped out, pushed his hot face into Adam's, and said that, Governor
as he was, if he encouraged the people to resist, the sumner should
there and then summon him to appear before the Church Courts for
contempt.

At that insult the crowd surged around, muttering deep oaths, and
factor and seneschal were both much hustled. In another moment there
was a general struggle; people were shouting, the Governor was on the
ground and in danger of being trodden under foot, the factor had
drawn a pistol, and some of his men were flourishing hangers.

By this time Red Jason had lounged up, as if by chance, to the
outskirts of the crowd, and now he pushed t