Giles Peram, the traitor and informer, had grown plumper, and his round face seemed more silly.

His little eyes had sunk deeper into his fat cheeks, and his lips were puckered as if to whistle.

He was attired as a cavalier, with a scarlet laced coat, a waistcoat of yellow velvet and knee breeches of the cavalier, with silk stockings.
"Good day, good people," he said, squeezing his fat little hands together.

"I hope you will excuse this visit, for I--I--heard that the brother of my--of the pretty maid had come home, and hastened to congratulate him." Robert gazed for a moment on the contemptible little fellow, the chief cause of his arrest and banishment and, turning to his mother, asked: "Do you allow him to come here ?" "We must," she whispered.
"Why ?" "Hush, son; you don't understand it all.

I will explain it to you soon." "You may; but I think I shall change matters, if he is to be a visitor." "He is the governor's secretary." "I care not if he be governor himself; he has no business here." The little fellow, whose face had grown alternately white and purple, stood squeezing his palms and ejaculating: "Oh, dear me!--oh, dear!--this is very extraordinary--what can this mean ?" "Why do you dare enter this house ?" demanded Robert, fiercely.
"Oh, dear, I don't know--I am only a small fellow, you know." At this moment Mrs.Price and her daughter interposed and begged Robert, for the peace of the family, to make no further remonstrance.