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"I will only deliver him on the terms I have mentioned" replied Fenwolf.
At this moment, Tristram returned, and the conversation ceased.
Fresh logs were then thrown on the fire by Fenwolf, and, at his request,
Tristram proceeded to a hole in the rock, which served as a sort of
larder, and brought from it some pieces of venison, which were broiled
upon the embers.
At the close of the repast, of which she sparingly partook, Mabel was
conducted by Morgan Fenwolf into a small chamber opening out of the
great cavern, which was furnished like the cell she had lately occupied,
with a small straw pallet. Leaving her a lamp, Fenwolf locked the door,
and placed the key in his girdle.
IV. How Sir Thomas Wyat was visited by Herne in the Cell.
Made aware by the clangour of the lock, and Fenwolf's exulting
laughter, of the snare in which he had been caught, Sir Thomas Wyat
instantly sprang from his hiding-place, and rushed to the door; but being
framed of the stoutest oak, and strengthened with plates of iron, it
defied all his efforts, nerved as they were by rage and despair, to burst
it open. Mabel's shrieks, as she was dragged away, reached his ears,
and increased his anguish; and he called out loudly to her companions
to return, but his vociferations were only treated with derision.
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