A little longer and I think I must have won him for Your Grace." "Heaven help us!" exclaimed the Duke in petulant vexation.

"Is no one coming in ?" Ferguson swung a hand towards the still open window, drawing attention to the sounds without.
"Does Your Grace not hear, that ye can ask ?" he cried, almost reproachfully; but they scarce heeded him, for Grey was inquiring if Mr.Strode might be depended upon to join, and that was a matter that claimed the greater attention.
"I think," said Battiscomb, "that he might have been depended upon." "Might have been ?" questioned Fletcher, speaking now for the first time since Battiscomb's arrival.
"Like Sir Francis Rolles, he is in prison," the lawyer explained.
Monmouth leaned forward, and his young face looked Careworn now; he thrust a slender hand under the brown curls upon his brow.

"Will you tell us, Mr.Battiscomb, upon what friends you think that we may count ?" he said.
Battiscomb pursed his lips a second, pondering.

"I think," said he, "that you may count upon Mr.Legge and Mr.Hooper, and possibly upon Colonel Churchill, though I cannot say what following they will bring, if any.

Mr.Trenchard, upon whom we counted for fifteen hundred men of Taunton, has been obliged to fly the country to escape arrest." "We have heard that from Mr.Trenchard's cousin," answered the Duke.
"What of Prideaux, of Ford?
Is he lukewarm ?" "I was unable to elicit a definite promise from him.