And two days after, to confirm this, an officer came to the Castle with news that Ludar's head was set on a pole above the gate at the Bridge of Dublin.
After that, the maiden said, she wished no longer to live.

For she knew not what to believe; or how much was a wicked plot to deceive her into yielding to the Captain.

Presently her father came home, and she begged him on her knees to send her to England.

He consented; but when my Lady heard of it, she took the whim to go to Court too, and invited the Captain to be their escort.

So nothing was gained by that move--or nothing would have been gained, had not Providence directed that Captain Merriman and my Lady should grievously fall out on the journey about some act of disrespect to herself, such as the neglecting to see her lifted to her horse before he assisted the maiden.