l; where, if his
trust be not so great as it was (now that his master and mistress are
one), he is none the less faithful or joyous in his service.

As for the poet, he was true to his promise of visiting Jeannette and me
at our frugal fireside. But this was not for many years after the
promise was given.

As soon as my arm was healed and I could persuade Ludar to release me, I
returned to London, to find the house without Temple Bar still empty,
and Master Walgrave's name still a caution to evil-doers. Despairing of
seeing me and his type from Rochelle, he had sold himself to those
firebrands Masters Udal and Penry; and by means of his secret press had
given utterance to certain scandalous and seditious libels on the
bishops and clergy of the Church, known by the name of Marprelate, his
books. A merry chase he gave the beadle and pursuivants all over the
country, dropping libels wherever he went, till at last he suddenly
vanished and left them to whistle.

For Jeannette's sake as well as my own I wandered far for news of him,
and heard of him at last from Mistress Crane as having fled to Rochelle
with all his family. Thither I wrote him of my welfare, and had a
letter back bidding me, if I was still minded to serve him, meet him in
Edinburgh. Thither, then, I took sail, and presently found him; and
should you meet with any books imprinted by Robert Walgrave, Printer to
the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Edinburgh, know that the hand that
set them in type was the same which now writes this true history.

In due season Mistress Walgrave and the little ones came northward too;
and one glad day I wandered to the western coast, and there met Ludar
and his fair bride, and with them my own sweet Jeannette, from whom I
never parted more.

Ere this happy meeting took place, Sorley Boy McDonnell had ended his
stormy days and was gathered to his fathers, and Sir James McDonnell,
his son, became Lord of Dunluce.

Ludar dwelt quietly on his lands in Cantire, refusing allegiance to any
crowned monarch, but loyal to the end to his wife, his clan, his
comrade, and to the memory of those perils and chances which had made
him and me brothers.

THE END.

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