He questioned him adroitly, and drew from him the story of the rising that was being planned, and of the share that Mr.Wilding--one of the Duke of Monmouth's chief movement-men--bore in the business that was toward.
When, towards midnight, Richard Westmacott went home, he left in Sir Rowland's hands an instrument which the latter accounted potential not only for the destruction of Anthony Wilding, but perhaps also for laying the foundations to the building of his own fortunes anew..