Men of that class hate a traitor worse than they do crime, Captain Cuffe, and they'll ride Bolt down like the main tack." "Perhaps not; and if they do, 'twill not be as bad as hanging.

The fellow must think himself luckily out of a bad scrape, and thank God for all his mercies.

You can see that he suffers nothing unreasonable, or greatly out of the way.

So send an order to the master-at-arms to knock the irons off the chap, and send him to duty, before you turn in, Winchester." This settled the matter as to Ithuel, for the moment, at least.

Cuffe was one of those men who was indisposed to push things too far, while he found it difficult to do his whole duty.