At any rate, I will ride back and consult Mr.Jervoise.Besides, he ought to be warned, for he, too, may be arrested on the same charge.

How did you get away without being noticed ?" "I said that I felt ill--and I was not speaking falsely--at Sir Marmaduke's arrest, and would lie down.

They are keeping a sharp lookout at the stables, and have a soldier at each door, to see that no one leaves the house, but I went out by that old passage that comes out among the ruins of the monastery." "I know, Banks.

My father showed it to me, three years ago." "I shall go back that way again, sir, and no one will know that I have left the house.

You know the trick of the sliding panel, Master Charles ?" "Yes, I know it, and if I should want to come into the house again, I will come that way, Banks." "Here is a purse," the butler said.