But it was young Dare--Dare and his followers, who prevailed.

They were too numerous and turbulent, and they must at all costs be conciliated, or there was no telling to what extremes they might not go.

And so there was an end to the share of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun in this undertaking--the end of the only man who was of any capacity to pilot it through the troubled waters that lay before it.

Monmouth placed him under arrest and sent him aboard the frigate again, ordering her captain to sail at once.

That was the utmost Monmouth could do to save him.
Wilding continued to plead with the Duke after Fletcher's removal, and to such good purpose that at last Monmouth determined that Fletcher should rejoin them later, when the affair should have blown over, and he sent word accordingly to the Scot.