The latter conducted him to the house of a middling farmer, whose son the bishop had sent, at his own expense, to a continental college.

They were both received with the warmest affection, and, so far as the bishop was concerned, with every expression of the deepest gratitude.

The situation was remote, and the tumult of pursuit did not, reach them.

Reilly privately forced upon the farmer compensation for their support, under a solemn injunction that he should not communicate that circumstance to the bishop, and neither did he.

They were here, then, comparatively safe, but still Reilly dreaded the active vigilance of his deadly enemy, Sir Robert Whitecraft.