"Yes, have you heard of it?"

"And seen it."

"Seen it?"

"Yes, afar off," said the lad dreamily, for Hubert gave him a
warning look.

"Even as a cat may look at a king's palace."

"But those woods are full of outlaws," said another lad, Louis de
Chalgrave.

"All the better; it will be rare sport to hunt them out."

"Easier said than done," muttered Martin, but not so low that his
words were unheard.

"What is easier said than done?" cried Drogo.

"I mean the hunting out those outlaws. Ever since you Normans came,
in the days of the usurper you call the Conqueror, it has been
talked about but never done."

"Usurper we call the Conqueror, pretty words these for the park of
Kenilworth," said several voices. "They suit the descendants of the
men who let themselves be beaten at Hastings."

"In any place but this Kenilworth they would cost a fellow his