She will be the old knight's, and without opposition." "Infernal villain! and that I should be lying here, unable to give her aid!" And overcome by the intensity of his emotion, as well as by acute bodily suffering, Sir Jocelyn relapsed into insensibility.
He was not, however, suffered to remain long in this state.

Stimulants applied by Luke Hatton soon restored him to consciousness.

The first object his gaze fell upon was the apothecary, and he was about to vent his fury upon him in words, when the latter, cautiously raising his finger to his lips, said in a whisper--"I am a friend.

Grimbald is only at the door, and a single exclamation on your part will betray me." He then leaned down, and bringing his lips almost close to the young knight's ear, whispered--"What I said before the jailer was correct.

I have been applied to by Sir Francis for a philter to be administered to Mistress Aveline, and I have promised it to him; but I am secretly in the service of Clement Lanyere, and will defeat the old usurer's villainous designs." Sir Jocelyn could not repress a cry of delight, and Grimbald entered the cell..