"
"Your grace shall find the boy man enough to avenge an insult,"
rejoined Surrey sternly.
"I am glad to hear it," returned the duke. "Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, I
must pray you to return to your lodgings. The king's jester will attend
you. This way, my lord."
Too much exasperated to hesitate, Surrey followed the duke down the
passage, and the next moment the clashing of swords was heard. The
Fair Geraldine screamed loudly, and Will Sommers began to think the
jest had been carried too far.
"What is to be done?" he cried. "If the king hears of this quarrel, he will
assuredly place the Earl of Surrey in arrest. I now repent having
brought the duke here."
You acted most maliciously," cried the Fair Geraldine; "but fly, and
prevent further mischief."
Thus urged, the jester ran towards the lower ward, and finding an
officer of the guard and a couple of halberdiers near the entrance of St.
George's Chapel, told them what was taking place, and they
immediately hastened with him to the scene of the conflict.
"My lords!" cried the officer to the combatants, "I command you to lay
down your weapons."
But finding no respect paid to his injunctions, he rushed between them,
and with the aid of the halberdiers, forcibly separated them.
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