Our only hope of escape is to ride either for Bristol, or one of the southern ports." "I must go back," Sir Marmaduke said doggedly.

"I must kill that scoundrel John Dormay, before I do anything else.

It is he who has wound this precious skein, in order to entrap us, expecting, the scoundrel, to have my estates bestowed on him as a reward." "It were madness to ride back now, Sir Marmaduke.

It would cost you your life, and you would leave Charlie here fatherless, and with but little chance of ever regaining the estate.

You have but to wait for a time, and everything will right itself.