`` But so long as I do not anger thee , my tale will be secret ? '' said Fulke . ' `` Just so long . Does that comfort thee , Fulke ? '' said De Aquila . ' `` What other comfort have ye left me ? '' he said , and of a sudden he wept hopelessly like a child , dropping his face on his knees . ' ` Poor Fulke , ' said Una . ' I pitied him also , ' said Sir Richard . ' `` After the spur , corn , '' said De Aquila , and he threw Fulke three wedges of gold that he had taken from our little chest by the bedplace . ' `` If I had known this , '' said Fulke , catching his breath , `` I would never have lifted hand against Pevensey . Only lack of this yellow stuff has made me so unlucky in my dealings . '' ` It was dawn then , and they stirred in the Great Hall below . We sent down Fulke 's mail to be scoured , and when he rode away at noon under his own and the King 's banner , very splendid and stately did he show . He smoothed his long beard , and called his son to his stirrup and kissed him . De Aquila rode with him as far as the New Mill landward . We thought the night had been all a dream . ' ` But did he make it right with the King ? ' Dan asked . ` About your not being traitors , I mean . '
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