I say, may there not have been others in the wicked scheme ?" "True, true," said the King uneasily.

"We must lay this Jonah Wall by the heels.

What's known of him ?" Thinking the appeal was made to me, I strove to rise.

M.de Perrencourt's arm reached over the back of my chair and kept me down.

I heard Darrell take up the story and tell what he knew--and it was as much as I knew--of Jonah Wall, and what he knew of Phineas Tate also.
"It is a devilish plot," said the King, who was still greatly shaken and perturbed.
Then Phineas spoke loudly, boldly, and with a voice full of the rapturous fanaticism which drowned conscience and usurped in him religion's place.
"Here," he cried, "are the plots, here are the devilish plots! What do you here?
Aye, what do you plot here?
Is this man's life more than God's Truth?
Is God's Word to be lost that the sins and debauchery of this man may continue ?" His long lean forefinger pointed at the King.