"This man is capable of anything, and careth not where he chooseth his instruments.

The man of the hut at Lambeth has never been caught since his escape from Richmond Jail--thanks, doubtless, to the gold of his employer--and, for aught we know, may still be lurking in the marshes there, or in the purlieus of the city.

He will have a grudge against you as well as his employer, and in him Sir James would find a ready instrument.

He is no doubt connected, as before, with a gang of water pirates and robbers, and it is not one sword alone that you would have to encounter.

I think not that you are in danger just at present, for he would know that, in case of your murder, the suspicions of Dame Vernon and of any others who may know the motive which he has in getting rid of you would be excited, and he might be accused of having had a share in your death.