He had been given orders which took him into Whig circles, and had made progress among the group of the King's Head Tavern.

He had even won an entrance into my Lord Shaftesbury's great house in Aldersgate Street.

He was there under false colours, being a spy of the other camp, but something in him found itself at home among the patriots.

A resolve had been growing to cut loose from his old employers and settle down among the Whigs in comparative honesty.

It was the winning cause, he thought, and he longed to get his head out of the kennels....