THREE:"But why should that m?ake f?ather angry wud you?"He had been left a small sum by his father��resulting from the sale of a water-meadow, and securely banked at Rye. Naomi, moreover, was well dowered; and Tom Gasson, anxious to see the young couple established, had promised to help them start a grass farm in the neighbourhood. The project had so far gone no further than discussion. Reuben was opposed to it��he would have liked Harry to stay on at Odiam after his marriage; Naomi, too, would be useful in many ways, her dowry supplying a much-felt want of capital. However, he realised that in this direction his authority had its limits. He was powerless to prevent Harry leaving Odiam, and there was nothing to do but to wring as much as possible out of him while he stayed. Of his mother's planned escape he knew nothing. FORE:"Start not," said he, "John Ball is not come to harm you;��he never harmed any to whom God gave the breath of life,��neither did he counsel the blood which has been spilt. A price is set upon his head��but think ye the homeless wanderer fears to die? Baron of Sudley, I have come thus far to tell you what I told you once before��that if ye will swear to set free the bondmen of Sudley, the child you mourn as dead shall be restored to you!"