To be embroiled now might ruin everything, and by a miracle he kept his temper.

He had a moment to spare while his horse was being saddled.
"Sir," he said, "if you have upon your pretty person trinkets to half the value of what I have won from you, I'll stake the whole against them on one throw, after which, no matter what the result, I take my departure.

Are you agreed ?" There was a murmur of admiration from those present at the recklessness and the generosity of the proposal, and Foster was forced to accept it.
Two more rings he drew forth, a diamond from the ruffles at his throat, and a pearl that he wore in his ear.

The lot he set upon the board, and Crispin threw the winning cast as the host entered to say that his horse was ready.
He gathered the trinkets up, and with a polite word of regret he was gone, leaving Mr.Harry Foster to meditate upon the pledging of one of his horses to the landlord in discharge of his lodging.
And so it fell out that before Cynthia had gone six miles along the road to Denham, one of her attendants caught a rapid beat of hoofs behind them, and drew her attention to it, suggesting that they were being followed.

Faster Cynthia bade them travel, but the pursuer gained upon them at every stride.