He must be mad to dare to set his power against mine.

I was a fool that I did not stamp him out long ago; but woe betide him when we next meet! Had it not been that I was served by a fool"-- and here the angry knight turned to his henchman, Red Roy--"this would not have happened.

Who could have thought that a man of your years could have suffered himself to be fooled by a boy, and to bring me tales that this insolent upstart was a poor stupid lout! By Heavens! to be thus badly served is enough to make one mad!" "Well, Sir John," the man grumbled, "the best man will be sometimes in error.

I have done good service for you and yours, and yet ever since we met this boy outside the gates of Lanark you have never ceased to twit me concerning him.

Rest secure that no such error shall occur again, and that the next time I meet him I will pay him alike for the wound he gave you and for the anger he has brought upon my head.