and I love honesty before all other, things. Get to your home, sir. You
must not budge from it until I send for you. Then, as proof of your
fidelity to the ruler of your country, you shall go on whatever mission I
send you."

"Your Highness, I will do what seems my duty in the hour of your
summons."

"You shall do the will of the Lord," answered the Protector, and, bowing
a farewell, turned upon his heel. Enderby looked after him a moment, then
moved towards the door, and as he went out to mount his horse he muttered
to himself:

"The will of the Lord as ordained by Oliver Cromwell--humph!"

Then he rode away up through Trafalgar Square and into the Tottenham
Court Road, and so on out into the Shires until he came to Enderby House.

Outside all was as he had left it seven years before, though the hedges
were not so well kept and the grass was longer before the house. An air
of loneliness pervaded all the place. No one met him at the door. He rode
round into the court-yard and called. A man-servant came out. From him he
learned that four of Cromwell's soldiers were quartered in the house,
that all the old servants, save two, were gone, and that his son had been
expelled the place by Cromwell's order two days before. Inside the house
there was less change. Boon companion of the boisterous cavaliers as his
son had been, the young man's gay hours had been spent more away from
Enderby House than in it.

When young Enderby was driven from his father's house by Cromwell, he