CHAPTER 11: Bad News.
"This has been a strange adventure, Roger." "A very strange one, master.

Lord Grey would tear his hair, if he knew that those two pretty birds had been hiding in the cage all day, and he never knew it.

However, I see not that it can do us harm.

Nay, more, there is a probability that it may even benefit us, for if it should happen, by ill fortune, we should ever fall into the hands of the Welsh, and they should abstain from cutting our throats then and there, perchance these young ladies would repay the service we have rendered them, by taking us under their protection." "It may be so, indeed, Roger, though I hope that I shall never hear more of tonight's adventure.

We may reason as we will, but there is no doubt that, although we had no instructions touching the capture of women, we have failed in our duty." "That will in no way trouble me, Master Oswald.