CHAPTER VI: Watched!.
"I am glad thou hast so resolved, my husband; but hast thou considered what it may mean to thee ?" Lady Chadgrove spoke gently, laying her hand upon her husband's arm with a gesture unwontedly tender; for neither was demonstrative of the deep affection which existed between them, and he knew that only strong emotion evoked such action from her.
"I know that if I refuse to give up Brother Emmanuel I may draw down upon myself stern admonition, and perchance something worse, but I mean not that it come to open defiance of any injunction from the Church.

Brother Emmanuel must leave Chad secretly, and be far away ere the week of grace expires.

We are but twenty miles from the coast.

This very day I shall ride thither and see what small trading vessels are in the bay about to fare forth to foreign shores.

I shall negotiate with some skipper making for some Dutch port to carry thither the person whom I shall describe to him, and who will show him this ring"-- and Sir Oliver displayed an emerald upon his own finger--"in token that he is the person to be taken aboard.