He chanced upon me in Grubswell, and when he learned my name he would have murdered me.

But I played quarter staff with him and beat him to a pulp, taking his sword.' 'Ay, and then ?' 'And then I let him go, knowing nothing of the deed he had already wrought upon our mother.

Afterwards I will tell you all.' 'You let him go, son! You let Juan de Garcia go! Then, Thomas, may the curse of God rest upon you till you find him and finish that which you began to-day.' 'Spare to curse me, father, who am accursed by my own conscience.

Turn your horses rather and ride for Yarmouth, for there his ship lies and thither he has gone with two hours' start.

Perhaps you may still trap him before he sets sail.' Without another word my father and brother wheeled their horses round and departed at full gallop into the gloom of the gathering night.
They rode so fiercely that, their horses being good, they came to the gates of Yarmouth in little more than an hour and a half, and that is fast riding.