Tom, do you remember the tall dark man with whom my duel was fought ?" "Sir James ?" "That is the name by which he goes in England.

He passes there as one Sir James Montacute, a man of bravery and wealth.

But there is another side to the picture.

That man, Tom, is a spy, and in the pay of the King of France.

If I had known as much that day as I have since learned from his Grace the Duke, methinks I should not have left him alive upon the field.