against Sir Oliver." He frowned thoughtfully.

"D'ye think Sir Oliver had news of this ?" At once Master Lionel saw the drift of what was in the other's mind.
"I know it," he replied.

"Myself I bore it him.

But why do you ask ?" "Does it not help us perhaps to understand and explain Sir Oliver's disappearance?
God lack! Surely, knowing that, he were a fool to have tarried here, for he would hang beyond all doubt did he stay for the coming of her grace's messenger." "My God!" said Lionel, staring.

"You...