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BETRAYAL.
Still smarting under the cavalier treatment he had received, Mr.Wilding came forth from the Castle to find Trenchard awaiting him among the crowd of officers and men that thronged the yard.
Nick linked his arm through his friend's and led him away.

They quitted the place in silence, and in silence took their way south towards the High Street, Nick waiting for Mr.Wilding to speak, Mr.Wilding's mind still in turmoil at the things he had endured.

At last Nick halted suddenly and looked keenly at his friend in the failing light.
"What a plague ails you, Tony ?" said he sharply.

"You are as silent as I am impatient for your news." Wilding told him in brief, disdainful terms of the reception they had given him at the Castle, and of how they had blamed him for the circumstance that London had failed to proclaim itself for Monmouth.
Trenchard snarled viciously.