An empty and foolish title is mine, and yet it is something to have deserved it,

For I think it is more honor to be held worthy to be a specter-knight in his

Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows, than to be held base enough to be an earl

in some of the real kingdoms of this world.'

The crowd fell apart to admit a constable, who approached and was about to

lay his hand upon the king's shoulder, when Hendon said:

'Gently, good friend, withhold your hand — he shall go peaceably; I am

responsible for that. Lead on, we will follow.'

The officer led, with the woman and her bundle; Miles and the king followed

After, with the crowd at their heels. The king was inclined to rebel; but

Hendon said to him in a low voice:

'Reflect, sire — your laws are the wholesome breath of your own royalty;

shall their source reject them, yet require the branches to respect them?

Apparently, one of these laws has been broken; when the king is on his throne

Again, can it ever grieve him to remember that when he was seemingly a

Private person he loyally sunk the king in the citizen and submitted to its

authority?'

'Thou art right; say no more; thou shalt see that whatsoever the king of

England requires a subject to suffer under the law, he will himself suffer while

he holdeth the station of a subject.'

When the woman was called upon to testify before the justice of the peace, she