"I'm not hurt.

I suppose that came through helping the men." "Ah! and Mark Eden--is he hurt ?" "No: we two ought to have had the worst of it.

He had a thrust on the head, but his steel cap saved him, and he walked home." "But Sir Morton?
he did not know you were going ?" "No: we kept it to ourselves." "He knows now, of course ?" "Nothing at all.

We've only just got back." "I'll come at once," said the old man; and hurrying into the cottage, he took some linen and other necessaries, put on his hat, and rejoined the lad, making him give a full account of the attack and failure as they walked sharply back to the Castle.
"You don't say anything, Master Rayburn," cried Ralph at last.

"Do you think we were so very much to blame ?" "Blame, my boy ?" cried the old man.