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For the Faith

CHAPTER X: A Startling Apparition
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He is to be strictly examined after evensong today.

If he refuse to give up the names of all to whom he has sold his books, and who have listened to his teachings, they declare he will be sent to the Tower to be examined by the rack." The young lad was quivering all over in excitement and fear.
Arthur, coming up at the same minute, spoke almost fiercely.
"What possessed the man to return to Oxford, once he was safe away?
It seems he came back after dark last night, and was seen and followed and reported on.

They found him at midnight, and will use sharp methods with him.

I have no love for Garret and his firebrand doctrines; but he will be the means of betraying the whole brotherhood, an he be not steadfast; and who knows how such an one will meet the trials which will beset him?
If he should betray thee, Dalaber, or our good master and friend John Clarke, I should find it hard indeed to forgive him." "He will betray none--" began Dalaber; but Cole broke in with a scornful snort.
"I would not answer for him.

He is a strange mixture of strength and weakness, devotion, constancy, and nervous fear.


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