"But you see you yourself talked of remaining for three days in Edinburgh.

Therefore, I knew that there could be no pressing need of my journey north; and hearing some whispers of the intention of the lord president to extract from a certain prisoner the news of a plot with which he was supposed to be connected, I thought it even best to come and see you." "But how have you obtained this garb ?" Harry asked; "and how, above all, have you managed to penetrate hither ?" "Truly," Jacob said, "I have undertaken a difficult task in thy behalf, for I have to-night to enter into a disputation with many learned divines, and I dread that more than running the risk of meeting the Earl of Argyll, who, they say, has the face of a fox, and the heart of a devil." "What mean you ?" Harry asked.
"After we saw you dragged off by the townsmen, on being denounced by that little preacher whose hat I spoiled in St.Paul's churchyard, we followed your orders, and made back to our hostelry.

There William Long and myself talked the matter over.

In the first place, we took all the papers and documents which were concealed about us, and lifting a board in the room, hid them beneath it, so that in case of our arrest they would be safe.

As we took out the documents, the commission which we borrowed from the preachers met our eyes, and it struck me that, armed with this, we might be enabled to do you service.