His air grew calmer and more assured, and the trembling was gone from his voice as he spoke.
"Come, gentlemen," said he, "while we talk this ruffian who has escaped us makes good pace from Dover.

Let the Duke of Monmouth and the Duke of Buckingham each take a dozen men and scour the country for him.

I shall be greatly in the debt of either who brings him to me." The two Dukes started.

The service which the King demanded of them entailed an absence of several hours from the Castle.

It might be that they, or one of them, would learn something from Jonah Wall; but it was far more likely that they would not find him, or that he would not suffer himself to be taken alive.