You can either remain in the house, in which case none will know of your presence here; or, if you wish to go abroad in the town, I will accompany you, and will introduce you to any acquaintance I may meet as a cousin of my wife who, with his two sons, has come over from Preston to pay us a visit.

I don't think that anyone would know you, in that attire." "I will run no more risks than are necessary, Herries.

Those I wish to see will visit me here, and, if I go out at all, it will not be until after dark." For a fortnight they remained at the house.

After dark each day, a man paid Mr.Jervoise a visit.

He was the magistrates' clerk, and had an apartment in the castle.