But how did it happen that you knew he had the letter upon him, or was it that you were playing the hightobymen, and that in robbing him you hoped to find other matters ?" "Not so, sir," answered Richard.

"I sought but the letter." "And how knew you that he carried it?
Did you learn that, too, from Mr.
Wilding's indiscretion ?" "Your Grace has said it." "'Slife! What an impudent rogue have we here!" cried the angry Duke, who conceived that Richard was purposely dealing in effrontery.

"Mr.
Trenchard, I do think we are wasting time.

Be so good as to confound them both with the truth of this matter." "That letter," said Trenchard, "was delivered to them at the Hare and Hounds, here at Taunton, by a gentleman who put up at the inn, and was there joined by Mr.Westmacott and Sir Rowland Blake.

They opened the conversation with certain cant phrases very clearly intended as passwords.