"Yet now I look at the instrument, it is so." "I obtained this assignment by stratagem," said the promoter; "and I have thereby deprived Sir Giles of the most valuable portion of his spoils; and though; he thinks to win it back again, he will find himself deceived.

My measures are too well taken.

This is the chief prop of the fabric it has taken him so long to rear, and ere long I will shake it wholly in pieces." "But if you have become unlawfully possessed of this property, as would appear to be the case by your own showing, you cannot hope to retain it," said the young knight.
"Trust me, Sir Jocelyn, I shall prove a better title to it than Sir Giles could exhibit," rejoined Lanyere; "but this is not a time for full explanation.

If I carry out my schemes, you will not be the last person benefited by them." "Again, I ask you, what possible interest you can feel in me ?" demanded the young knight with curiosity.
"Next to myself, you have been most injured by Sir Giles, and even more than myself are you an object of dislike to him.

These would suffice to excite my sympathy towards you; but I have other and stronger reasons for my friendly feeling towards you, which in due season you shall know." "All your proceedings are mysterious," observed Sir Jocelyn.
"They must needs be so from the circumstances in which I am placed.