The leader of them was a little man with a vast cocked hat and a splendid sword all studded with jewels.
The fool, peering over the hedge, saw him give orders to his men, and then walk, alone, up the little winding path, to the cliff-top.

Straight up the path he came, then right past the fool himself, standing at last upon the turnip field of Farmer Ede, one of the greatest of the farmers of those parts.

And here he waited, staring out to sea, his arms crossed, his eyes very fierce and very, very sad.

Then a second time from the golden ship a boat pushed out, cutting its way through the glassy sea--and there landed on the beach a young man, very beautiful, in a suit of blue and gold, and he, without a glance at the waiting sailors, also slowly climbed the sea-path, and at last he too reached Farmer Ede's turnip field.

Then he and the Scarlet Admiral bowed to one another, very beautifully, very sadly, and very, very fiercely.