The Humiliation of Redman Dane
Chapter 8
For all his arrogance and his self indulgent sybaritical tastes, Redman Dane was a strong, athletic, and healthy young man, the wasp attack he had suffered could well have killed a weaker or older man, yet he survived. However, due to the trauma and venom pumping though his veins, his naked body fell limp in his saviour, the shepherd’s arms, and he slipped into a merciful unconsciousness.
Aaron carried the beautiful youth into the hills, and to his lonely croft, where there would be shelter from the storm, which the country raised 30 year old sensed was coming. Carrying an adult male, caused little effort to a man well used to carrying 200 to 300 pound sheep on his back, and within a short period, he was laying Redman’s lithe but now motionless bodyon the single simple rustic bed, in the small attic space which passed for a bedroom in his rustic home.
Redman was on the edge a coma for for the next 40 hours, delirious and unaware of his surroundings or who was with him. During those hours Aaron nursed him with great care and tenderness, applying simple balms and country brewed remedies, inherited from his mysterious grandmother, to help the young man’s wounds and ease his pain. As he did so, he marvelled at the loveliness of his patient’s body.
The local country maidens held no interest for the Sheppard, who had long ago accepted that his passions leaned towards a forbidden love. Therefore, he briefly had to battle with the temptation to let his hands wander from those areas in need for medical care, to more intimate regions.
Then over the next few hours, Redman began to speak, at first just feverish and muddled words which made little sense. Gradually, as time passed the words became more coherent, and, as the Sheppard listened he became first intrigued and then angered by what he was hearing. Reman’s anger and cruelty came pouring out, as did details of his crimes and unkind acts, acts to which the conscious Redman would never have confessed, were being exposed to the ears of a lowly country Shepard.
Also, as Redman spoke, he revealed his identity, and Aaron was shocked to discover that he was nursing the son of the most eminent families in the four counties. He quickly arranged for word to be sent to Dane Hall, that Redman was alive and being cared for.
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