The news only reached here yesterday." "It has occasioned a good deal of scare," Mr.Jervoise replied.

"I suppose there is no word of the arrest of the man, or his accomplices?
We have travelled but slowly, and the news may have passed us on the way." "Not as yet," the landlord replied.

"They say that all the northern and eastern ports are watched, and they make sure of catching him, if he presents himself there.

The general opinion is that he will, for a time, go into hiding with his friends, in the hills of Cumberland or Westmoreland, or perhaps on the Yorkshire moors; but they are sure to catch him sooner or later." "It is a bad business altogether," Mr.Jervoise said, "and we can only hope that all guilty persons will in time get the punishment they so well deserve.

How can trade be carried on, if the country is to be disturbed by plots, and conspiracies ?" "How, indeed ?" the landlord repeated heartily.