I fear me much that it will not be long before they lay hands upon Master Clarke." Dismay and sorrow were in all faces.

Dr.Langton looked intently at the speaker, as though to ask more, and Arthur answered the unspoken question.
"I think I have told you how that the cardinal has been informed that the very men he introduced into Oxford have been foremost in the spread of those doctrines which are begun to be called heresy, though not one word has Master Clarke ever spoken for which he cannot find confirmation in the words of Holy Writ and in the pure teachings of the primitive church.

But having heard this, the cardinal is much disturbed, and hath ordered a very close and strict investigation to be made.

I know not exactly yet what these words may mean to us; but at no moment should I be surprised to hear that Clarke and others of like mind with himself had been suspended from teaching, if not arrested and accused as heretics." "Oh, it is too much! it is too much!" cried Magdalen, whose face had turned deadly pale.

She was much agitated, and her wonted calm had deserted her.
Freda, who was standing at the window, suddenly exclaimed that Master Radley was coming hastily across the meadow path towards them, and some instinct seemed to warn them all that he was the bearer of heavy tidings.