I would submit, Your Majesty, that you receive from Mr.Newlington not twenty thousand pounds as he had promised you, but thirty thousand, and that you receive it not as a loan as was proposed, but as a fine imposed upon him in consequence of...

his lack of care in the matter of his orchard." Monmouth looked at the merchant very sternly.

"You have heard Mr.
Wilding's suggestion," said he.

"You may thank the god of traitors it was made, else we might have thought of a harsher course.

You shall pay the money by ten o'clock to-morrow to Mr.Wilding, whom I shall leave behind for the sole purpose of collecting it." He turned from Newlington in plain disgust.