CHAPTER XVI.
THE VOICE IN THE FOREST The four were back safe in their lodging in Cheapside, whither, after the deeds had been sealed, three soldiers escorted them by command.
"Have we done well, have we done well ?" asked Jacob, rubbing his hands.
"It would seem so, Master Smith," replied Cicely, "thanks to you; that is, if all the King said is really in those writings." "It is there sure enough," said Jacob; "for know, that with the aid of a lawyer and three scriveners, I drafted them myself in the Lord Cromwell's office this morning, and oh, I drew them wide.

Hard, hard we worked with no time for dinner, and that was why I was ten minutes late by the clock, for which Emlyn here chided me so sharply.

Still, I'll read them through again, and if aught is left out we will have it righted, though these are the same parchments, for I set a secret mark upon them." "Nay, nay," said Cicely, "leave well alone.

His Grace's mood may change, or the Queen--that matter of the pearl." "Ah, the pearl, it grieved me to part with that beautiful pearl.

But there was no way out, it must be sold and the money handed over, our honour is on it.