We must take order about this, you and I." They went off together, skirting the redoubt, and so through courtyard and garden to the house where Arabella waited anxiously.

The sight of her uncle brought her infinite relief, not only on his own account, but on account also of Captain Blood.
"You took a great risk, sir," she gravely told Lord Julian after the ordinary greetings had been exchanged.
But Lord Julian answered her as he had answered Major Mallard.

"There was no risk, ma'am." She looked at him in some astonishment.

His long, aristocratic face wore a more melancholy, pensive air than usual.

He answered the enquiry in her glance: "So that Blood's ship were allowed to pass the fort, no harm could come to Colonel Bishop.