I shall at once place you in durance, and shall send report to the king of your mutinous conduct." "Be that as it may," another voice replied; "whatever befall me, I tell you, sir, that Thomas Hawkins will take no part in an act of such foul and dastardly treachery.

I am a soldier of King Edward.
I am paid to draw my sword against his enemies, and not to do the bloody work of a murderer." "Seize him!" the governor shouted.

"Give him in charge to the guard, to lay in the castle dungeon." There was a movement of feet now heard, but Cluny waited no longer.

The angry utterances had reached his ear, and knowing that his mission was accomplished he thought only now of escape before detection might take place.

He had noticed when he entered the room that the windows were, as was usually the case with rooms on the lower floors, barred; but he saw also that the bars were wide enough apart for a lad of his slimness to crawl through.