It was thought a still stronger proof of his fidelity that he gave valuable intelligence about what was doing in the office of the Secretary of State.

A deposition had been sworn against one zealous royalist.

A warrant was preparing against another.

These intimations saved several of the malecontents from imprisonment, if not from the gallows; and it was impossible for them not to feel some relenting towards the awakened sinner to whom they owed so much.
He however, in his secret conversations with his new allies, laid no claim to merit.

He did not, he said, ask for confidence.