[A Jacobite Exile by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Jacobite Exile CHAPTER 1: A Spy in the Household 37/38
Two of the gentlemen, who were sitting facing the window, declared that they remembered distinctly that it was open.
Mr. Jervoise says that he thought to himself that, if it was his place, he would have the trees cut away there, for they shut out the light. "Therefore, although it is uncomfortable to think that there has been a spy in the house, for some months, we have every reason to hope that our councils have not been overheard.
Were it otherwise, I should lose no time in making for the coast, and taking ship to France, to wait quietly there until the king comes over." "You have no documents, father, that the man could have found ?" "None, Charlie.
We have doubtless made lists of those who could be relied upon, and of the number of men they could bring with them, but these have always been burned before we separated.
Such letters as I have had from France, I have always destroyed as soon as I have read them.
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