As they dragged her from the chair, he said: "'Quick! hurry her down to the boat.' "There is no doubt upon my mind that he intended to carry her off, and to compel her to marry him.

I bethought me at first of applying to the secretary of state for a warrant for his arrest to answer for this outrage, but Mistress Maria leaves us tomorrow for Holland, and the process would delay her departure, and would cause a scandal and talk very unpleasant to herself, and which would greatly offend my good friend her father.

Had the men in custody been brought up this morning, there would have been no choice but to have carried the matter through.

It was then a relief to us to find that they had escaped.

I have told you this, young sir, as your due after having rescued Mistress Von Duyk from so great a peril.