CHAPTER VIII.
Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons.
Close behind Sir Giles, and a little in advance of the rest of the myrmidons, stood Lupo Vulp, the scrivener.
Lupo Vulp was the confidential adviser of our two extortioners, to whom they referred all their nefarious projects.

He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.

Lupo Vulp was in all respects worthy of his employers, being just as wily and unscrupulous as they were, while, at the same time, he was rather better versed in legal tricks and stratagems, so that he could give them apt counsel in any emergency.

A countenance more replete with cunning and knavery than that of Lupo Vulp, it would be difficult to discover.

A sardonic smile hovered perpetually about his mouth, which was garnished with ranges of the keenest and whitest teeth.