So let it be understood, Master Harry, that I go into this business partly from love of you, who have been truly a most kind friend to me, partly because I love adventure, and hate this scrivener's desk, partly because there is a chance that I may benefit by the change." Harry bade him procure apparel as a sober retainer in a Puritan family, and join him that night at Furness Hall, as he purposed to set out at daybreak.

William Long also agreed at once to follow Harry's fortunes.
The old farmer, his father, offered no objection.
"It is right that my son should ride with the heir of Furness Hall," he said.

"We have been Furness tenants for centuries, and have ever fought by our lords in battle.

Besides, Master Harry, I doubt me whether William will ever settle down here in peace.

His elder brother will have the farm after me, so it matters not greatly, but your wars and journeyings have turned his head, and he thinks of arms and steel caps more than of fat beeves or well-tilled fields." The next morning, soon after daybreak, Harry and his followers left Furness Hall, and arrived the same night at Hampton.