They are in a great rage at the escape of Garret; and since he is not to be found, they have laid hands upon Dalaber, and he is even now at Lincoln College, where he is to be examined by the commissary and others, with what result cannot yet be known." "Then he did not go before the prior ?" "Yes; he did so at the first.

News was hastily brought to me by a clerk from Gloucester College, and I hurried thither in time to hear much that passed at the prior's court.

I have friends amongst the fellows and monks.

I stood just within the door and heard all.
The prior asked him of Garret's visit the day before, and he confessed the latter had been with him, but had quickly gone forth again.

He was asked whither he had gone, and answered that he had spoken of Woodstock, where he had a friend amongst the keepers who had promised him a piece of venison for Shrovetide." "Was that true ?" asked Freda, who was listening with wide and eager eyes.
Arthur smiled slightly.
"Most like it was a witty invention to put the bloodhounds off the scent, since Dalaber would scarce deliver over his friend into the hands of his bitter foes." "Is it right to speak a lie even in a good cause ?" asked the girl, seeming to address no particular person, but to be thinking aloud.
"A nice question in ethics, sweet mistress," spoke Arthur, with a smile; "and it may be there are some (I can believe that Master Clarke would be one) who would die sooner than utter a falsehood.
But for my part I hold that, as a man may take life or do some grievous bodily hurt to one who attacks him, and if he act in self defence no blame may attach to him, though at other times such a deed would be sin, so a man may speak a false word (at other times a sin) to save the life of his friend, and keep him out of the hands of those who would do him grievous bodily hurt, and perhaps put him to a cruel death.