My anxiety must plead my excuse." "None is necessary, sir," replied Leonard.

"I will no longer place any restraint upon you." So saying, and taking care not to let Bell out, he passed through the door, and closed it after him.

Having walked to some distance across the fields, musing on what had just occurred, and scarcely conscious whither he was going, he threw himself down on the grass, and fell asleep.

He awoke after some time much refreshed, and finding he was considerably nearer Bishopsgate than any other entrance into the city, determined to make for it.

A few minutes brought him to a row of houses without the walls, none of which appeared to have escaped infection, and passing them, he entered the city gate.