C6 A JACOBITE EXILE

related how Banks had revealed to him the secret of the
hiding-place, and how he had, the night before Sir Marma-
duke was removed from Lancaster Castle, visited the place
and carried away the money. “I could not see Banks,” he
said, “but I left a few words on a scrap of paper, saying
that it was I who had taken the money, otherwise he would
have been in a terrible taking when he discovered that it
was gone.”

“That is right good news indeed, lad. For twelve years
T have set aside half my rents, so that in those bags in
your holsters there are six years’ income, and the interest
of that money laid out in good mortgages will suffice
amply for my wants in a country like Sweden, where life is
simple and living cheap. The money itself shall remain
untouched for your use should our hopes fail and the estates
be lost for alltime. That is indeed a weight off my mind.
And you are, I hope, in equally good case, Jervoise, for if
not, you know that I would gladly share with you?”

“T am in very good case, Sir Marmaduke, though I none
the less thank you for your offer. I too have, as you know,
put aside half my income. My estates are not so large as
those of Lynnwood. Their acreage may be as large, but
a good deal of it is mountain land, worth but little. My
fund, therefore, is not as large as yours, but it amounts to
a good round sum; and as I hope, either in the army or in
some other way, to earn an income for myself, it is ample.
I shall be sorry to divert it from the use for which IJ in-
tended it, but that cannot now be helped. I have had the
pleasure year by year of putting it by for the king’s use,
and now that circumstances have changed, it will be
equally useful to myself.”

“Do you know this country well, Jervoise?”

“Personally I know nothing about it save that the sun
tells me that at present I am travelling south, Sir Marma-
duke; but for the last few days I have been so closely