We were in your room before daybreak, and you were not there." "I abode last night with Master Fitzjames, my former comrade, in our old lodging at St.Alban Hall," answered Dalaber readily, "and that can be proven of many witnesses.

Neither did I go forth with Master Garret when he left.

I came to St.Frideswyde for evensong, and there I saw you, Mr.Commissary, and you, Dr.London, enter to speak with the dean.

And I did well guess that you had come to tell him of the escape of Master Garret, of which he had spoken with me a short while before." It was perhaps not a very politic speech on Dalaber's part.

The three men turned angry and threatening glances upon him.
"You knew that that pestilent man was being sought for, and had escaped out of our hands, and you assisted him to further flight, and told nothing of what had chanced.