Suspicion was excited.

The messenger was arrested, interrogated, and searched; and the letters were found.
Some of them proved to be from Melfort, and were worthy of him.

Every line indicated those qualities which had made him the abhorrence of his country and the favourite of his master.

He announced with delight the near approach of the day of vengeance and rapine, of the day when the estates of the seditious would be divided among the loyal, and when many who had been great and prosperous would be exiles and beggars.

The King, Melfort said, was determined to be severe.