CHAPTER XI.
GRAVITY OUT OF BED.
A week later I had a visit from old Mercer.

He came to my house in the evening just after the closing of the store.

First of all, he paid out to me the gold I had lost from my ship at Accomac, with all the gravity in the world, as if it had been an ordinary merchant's bargain.

Then he produced some papers, and putting on big horn spectacles, proceeded to instruct me in them.

They were lists, fuller than those I had already got, of men up and down the country whom Lawrence trusted.