I should be accused of having a suspect, probably one of the emigres hidden here, and it would be difficult for me to explain your reception.

You must, in the first place, attire yourself in clothes such as are worn by the mate of a privateer.

I suppose you have papers, or you would not have been permitted to land." Leigh took out the passes and handed them to him.

Monsieur Flambard glanced through them.
"You must have managed well to have got hold of these passes, and they certainly put the matter on safer ground.

However, I should find some difficulty in explaining how I came to show hospitality to two persons who, by a strangely roundabout course, had made their way from Arthenay.