"Tell every one about it.

He doesn't mind." Maitre Ranulph deceived but badly.

Bold and convincing in all honest things, he was, as yet, unconvincing in this grave deception.

All these years he had kept silence, enduring what he thought a buried shame; but that shame had risen from the dead, a living agony.

His father had betrayed the island to the French: if the truth were known to-day they would hang him for a traitor on the Mont es Pendus.