If you are dead, who may not be alive?
Emlyn herself, perhaps, after this.

Oh, the devil is playing a merry game round old Cranwell Towers to-night, and Thomas Bolle will take a hand in it." He was right.

The devil was playing a merry game.

At least, so thought others beside Thomas.

For instance, that misguided but honest bigot, Martin, as he contemplated the still senseless form of Christopher, who, re-christened Brother Luiz, had been safely conveyed aboard the _Great Yarmouth_, and now, whether dead or living, which he was not sure, lay in the little cabin that had been allotted to the two of them.