to obey them is not loyalty, but serfdom; and revolt
is not disloyalty, but a freeman's duty. One day thou mayst know that
truth, but too late." [It was in the midst of his own conspiracy against
Richard of Gloucester that the head of Lord Hastings fell.]

Hastings made no reply, waved his hand to his fellow-defenders of the
bridge, and, followed by them, went slowly and deliberately on, till
clear of the murmuring and sullen foe; then putting spurs to their
steeds, these faithful warriors rode fast to rejoin their king; overtook
Hilyard on the way, and after a fierce skirmish, a blow from Hastings
unhorsed and unhelmed the stalwart Robin, and left him so stunned as to
check further pursuit. They at last reached the king, and gaining, with
him and his party, the town of Lynn, happily found one English and two
Dutch vessels on the point of sailing. Without other raiment than the
mail they wore, without money, the men a few hours before hailed as
sovereign or as peers fled from their native land as outcasts
and paupers. New dangers beset them on the sea: the ships of the
Easterlings, at war both with France and England, bore down upon their
vessels. At the risk of drowning they ran ashore near Alcmaer. The large
ships of the Easterlings followed as far as the low water would permit,
"intendeing at the fludde to have obtained their prey." [Hall.] In this
extremity, the lord of the province (Louis of Grauthuse) came aboard
their vessels, protected the fugitives from the Easterlings,
conducted them to the Hague, and apprised the Duke of Burgundy how his
brother-in-law had lost his throne. Then were verified Lord Warwick's
predictions of the faith of Burgundy! The duke for whose alliance
Edward had dishonoured the man to whom he owed his crown, so feared the
victorious earl, that "he had rather have heard of King Edward's death
than of his discomfiture;" [Hall, p. 279] and his first thought was to
send an embassy to the king-maker, praying the amity and alliance of the
restored dynasty.

CHAPTER VIII. WHAT BEFELL ADAM WARNER AND SIBYLL WHEN MADE SUBJECT TO
THE GREAT FRIAR BUNGEY.

We must now return to the Tower of London,--not, indeed, to its lordly
halls and gilded chambers, but to the room of Friar Bungey. We must go
back somewhat in time; and on the day following the departure of the
king and his lords, conjure up in that strangely furnished apartment the
form of the burly friar, standing before the disorganized E