18/44 I will not oppose you." "If I forbear so long," returned Catesby, "it will not be safe to remain here." "I will risk it," said Garnet, "and I counsel you to do the same. You will not leave Viviana at this strait." "I have no such thoughts," replied Catesby. "If I go, she goes too." "Then it will be in vain, I am sure, to endeavour to induce her to accompany you till her father is interred," observed Garnet. We shall meet the hoary juggler at the church, and an opportunity may occur for executing my purpose there. Unless he will swear at the altar not to betray us, he shall die by my hand." "An oath in such a case would be no security, my son," returned Garnet; "and his slaughter and that of his companion would be equally inefficacious, and greatly prejudicial to our cause. |