the lady didn't know you, sir."

"You forget that even Robert did not recognize me."

"And that, too, seemed funny to me. Why, sir, I seemed to know you the
instant I set eyes on you in the court, and when I got close I soon
settled the doubt in my mind."

"Well, my good fellow, it seems that but for you I might have been
hanged, and that, too, by my own bother; but I trust all is set right
now."

"I hope so, sir, only you must not let master Robert know that I
liberated you from these ruffles, sir, will you, master Charles?"

"Never fear me, Leonard, I shall not do as you were about to do towards
me, give testimony that will in any way criminate you."

"But I wasn't, sir, of my own free will, only master Robert had told me
what I must say, and stick to it, and swear to it through thick and
thin, and I'm afraid not to obey him."

"Poor fellow, I see you are, indeed, his tool; but if I find myself in
any sort of a position ere long, I will take care to make your situation
more comfortable."

"Thank ye, sir," said Leonard Hust, just as the last shackle dropped
from the prisoner's wrists.

In the mean time, let us turn for a moment to the bedside of Captain