How did he happen to know me ?" "Because he was present at your trial before Lord Jeffries.

He merely chanced to be there when you were first brought up, but became interested in the case, and so returned to hear you sentenced.

You are Geoffry Carlyle, in command of the ship that brought Monmouth to England.

I heard it all." "All?
What else, pray ?" Her eyes opened widely in sudden surprise and she clasped and unclasped her hands nervously.
"Do you really not know?
Have you never been told what happened ?" "Only that I was roughly forbidden to speak, called every foul name the learned Judge could think of, and then sentenced to twenty years penal servitude beyond seas," I answered soberly.

"Following that I was dragged from the dock, and flung into a cell.