Holywood is shut against you . Go , and seek not to return . For , once ye are gone , I will warn every post about this army , and there will be so shrewd a watch upon all pilgrims that , once again , were ye the very devil , ye would find it ruin to make the essay . '' `` Ye doom me , '' said Sir Daniel , gloomily . `` I doom you not , '' returned Richard . `` If it so please you to set your valour against mine , come on ; and though I fear it be disloyal to my party , I will take the challenge openly and fully , fight you with mine own single strength , and call for none to help me . So shall I avenge my father , with a perfect conscience . '' `` Ay , '' said Sir Daniel , `` y ' have a long sword against my dagger . '' `` I rely upon Heaven only , '' answered Dick , casting his sword some way behind him on the snow . `` Now , if your ill-fate bids you , come ; and , under the pleasure of the Almighty , I make myself bold to feed your bones to foxes . '' `` I did but try you , Dickon , '' returned the knight , with an uneasy semblance of a laugh . `` I would not spill your blood . '' `` Go , then , ere it be too late , '' replied Shelton . `` In five minutes I will call the post . I do perceive that I am too long-suffering . Had but our places been reversed , I should have been bound hand and foot some minutes past . '' `` Well , Dickon , I will go , '' replied Sir Daniel . `` When we next meet , it shall repent you that ye were so harsh . '' And with these words , the knight turned and began to move off under the trees . Dick watched him with strangely-mingled feelings , as he went , swiftly and warily , and ever and again turning a wicked eye upon the lad who had spared him , and whom he still suspected .
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