At a glance Mr.Wilding recognized Captain Venner--raised to the rank of colonel by Monmouth on the way from Holland.
Trenchard dismounted, and taking a distracted stable-boy by the arm, bade him see to their horses.

The fellow endeavoured to swing himself free of the other's tenacious grasp.
"Let me go," he cried.

"I am for the Duke!" "And so are we, my fine rebel," answered Trenchard, holding fast.
"Let me go," the lout insisted.

"I am going to enlist." "And so you shall when you have stabled our nags.

See to him, Vallancey; he is brainsick with the fumes of war." The fellow protested, but Trenchard's way was brisk and short; and so, protesting still, he led away their cattle in the end, Vallancey going with him to see that he performed this last duty as a stable-boy ere he too became a champion militant of the Protestant Cause.