"But two evils make not one good; and the Puritans who suffer in like fashion do not plot to overthrow their rulers." "How knowest thou that the Papists do ?" asked Cuthbert quickly.
"It has always been their way," answered Jacob; "and though I know but little of the meaning of the sinister whispers I hear, we have but to look back to former days to see how it has ever been.

Think of the two plots of this very reign, the 'Bye' and the 'Main'! What was their object but the subversion of the present rulers?
What they have tried before they will try again; and we who live beside this great river, and mingle with those who come from beyond the seas, do see and hear many things that others would not know.

There have been comings and goings of late that I have not liked.

It may be that mine eyes have played me false, but methought one dark night I saw a figure strangely like Father Urban land at the wharf, and he was incontinently joined by Walter Cole, who took him hastily and secretly away." Cuthbert started slightly, and Jacob continued: "And yet when I whispered a question to Walter a few days later concerning the priest, of whose welfare I have asked from time to time since I had a hand in his rescue, he told me that he was still beyond the seas, and that it was not like he would ever set foot on English soil again." Cuthbert was silent.

But he presently asked a question.
"But who is this Father Urban?
and why should his appearance mean aught, or disturb thee ?" "Father Urban is a Jesuit, and one of those they call seminary priests, and all such are held in detestation and suspicion above all other Papists.