Suffice it now, that it bound me to him in chains firmer than brass.

Willingly would I have laid down my life for him, if he had desired it.

Gladly would I have taken his place in the Fleet prison, if that could have procured him liberation.

Unable to do either, I watched over him while he lived--and buried him when dead." "O Sir, you have bound me to you as strongly as you were bound to my father," cried Jocelyn.

"For the devotion shown to him, I hold myself eternally your debtor." The Puritan regarded him steadfastly for a moment.
"What if I were to put these professions to the test ?" he asked.
"Do so," Jocelyn replied earnestly.