11/12 "I have deserted my charge--the banner entrusted to me is lost. When the headsman and block are prepared, the head and trunk are ready to part company." "Nay, then, God have mercy!" said De Vaux. "Yet would I rather than my best horse I had taken that watch myself. There is mystery in it, young man, as a plain man may descry, though he cannot see through it. Cowardice? |