When he had gone on a dozen yards, he paused for a moment to consider what he would do.

A dozen different thoughts passed through his mind in that moment of time.

Why was the man there?
Why, indeed, could he have come to England except with the view of prosecuting the demand which he and the woman had made?
His presence even in England was sufficient to declare that this battle would have to be fought.

But to Cambridge he could have come with no other object than that of beginning the attack at once.

And then, had he already commenced his work?
He had not at any rate been to Robert Bolton, to whom any one knowing the family would have first referred him.