What if he, as well as I, had learned the soldier's secret; and, to despite me and profit himself, had sold it to the one man from whom it was by all means to be kept?
I cursed my wickedness, who, lapped in my own happy fortune, had thus neglected my absent master's interest and let this knave get beforehand with me.

For, be Ludar alive or dead, I owed it to him to save the maiden from the Captain, even if it cost me my life.
So, as I say, this vision of the passing of the purse woke me out of my dream, and warned me that there was danger in the wind.
That afternoon, the same Providence which gave me the alarm put into my way a means of acting upon it.
My master I found in a sore state of vexation because a certain book he was printing, from which he expected some profit, was refused a licence by the Stationers' Company.

They liked it not, said the clerk, and had sent it on to his Grace, who had other matters to think of, and was, besides, away in Canterbury on a visitation.
At this my ears pricked.
"By your leave, Master Walgrave," said I, "here is a matter that presses.

If we get not his Grace's licence now, the occasion for the book will be gone by.

How if you let me go to Canterbury, to wait upon him ?" Master Walgrave shrugged his shoulders.
"Have you forgot your last journey for me ?" said he.