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daybreak. Harry shall go over with you to one of my
tenants, and you can both sleep there. It will not be nec-
essary for you to leave for another two or three hours. You
had better go to him now; supper will be served in half an
hour. I will talk with you again afterwards.”

Harry was waiting outside the door, having also heard
the news of Sir Marmaduke’s arrest.

“Tt is villanous!” he exclaimed, when he heard the
whole story. “No doubt you are right, and that John
Dormay is at the bottom of it all. The villain ought to
be slain.”

“He deserves it, Harry; and if I thought it would do
good I would gladly fight him, but I fear that it would do
harm. Such a scoundrel must needs be a coward, and
he might call for aid, and I might be dragged off to
Lancaster. Moreover, he is Ciceley’s father, and my cousin
Celia’s husband, and were I to kill him it would separate
me altogether from them. However, I shall in all things
be guided by your father, he will know what best ought to
be done. It is likely that he, too, may be arrested. This
is evidently a deep plot, and your father thinks that,
although the papers alone may not be sufficient to convict
my father, the spy we had in our house will be ready to
swear that he heard your father and mine and the others
making arrangements for the murder of William of Orange,
and their own word to the contrary would count but little
against such evidence backed by those papers.”

They talked together for half-an-hour, and were then
summoned to supper. Nothing was said upon the subject
until the servitors had retired and the meal was cleared
away. Mr. Jervoise was, like Sir Marmaduke, a widower.

“J have been thinking it all over,” he said when they
were alone. “I have determined to ride at once to consult
some of my friends, and to warn them of what has taken
place. That is clearly my duty. I shall not return until