Mr.Blood, observing his pause, added further matter for his consideration.
"Ye'll be remembering, Captain, that Lord Gildoy will have friends and relatives on the Tory side, who'll have something to say to Colonel Kirke if his lordship should be handled like a common felon.

You'll go warily, Captain, or, as I've said, it's a halter for your neck ye'll be weaving this morning." Captain Hobart swept the warning aside with a bluster of contempt, but he acted upon it none the less.

"Take up the day-bed," said he, "and convey him on that to Bridgewater.

Lodge him in the gaol until I take order about him." "He may not survive the journey," Blood remonstrated.

"He's in no case to be moved." "So much the worse for him.