"You will repent your determination when it is too late.

Farewell." "Hold!" cried Leonard, advancing towards him, and trying to lay hands upon him, "I arrest you in the king's name." "Off!" exclaimed Grant, dashing him forcibly backwards.

And striking down Blaize, who tried to stop him in the passage, he threw open the street-door, and disappeared.

Fearful of pursuit, Grant took a circuitous route to Saint Paul's, and it was full half an hour after the interview above related before he reached the cathedral.

Just as he passed through the small door, the clock tolled forth the hour of midnight, and when he gained the mid aisle, he heard footsteps approaching, and encountered his friends.
"We had given you up," said Chowles, "and fearing you intended us some treachery, were about to do the job without you." "I have been unavoidably detained," replied Grant.