Use despatch!" "Her ladyship will not travel beyond Saint Alban's to-night, Sir Rowland, so Mrs.Norris informed me," returned Charcam, respectfully; "and there's a person without, anxious for an audience, whom, with submission, I think your honour would desire to see." "Ah!" exclaimed Sir Rowland, glancing significantly at Charcam, who was a confidant in his Jacobite schemes; "is it the messenger from Orchard-Windham, from Sir William ?" "No, Sir Rowland." "From Mr.Corbet Kynaston, then?
Sir John Packington's courier was here yesterday." "No, Sir Rowland." "Perhaps he is from Lord Derwentwater, or Mr.Forster?
News _is_ expected from Northumberland." "I can't exactly say, Sir Rowland.

The gentleman didn't communicate his business to me.

But I'm sure it's important." Charcam said this, not because he knew anything about the matter; but, having received a couple of guineas to deliver the message, he, naturally enough, estimated its importance by the amount of the gratuity.
"Well, I will see him," replied the knight, after a moment's pause; "he may be from the Earl of Mar.

But let the horses be in readiness.

I shall ride to St.Alban's to-night." So saying, he threw himself into a chair.