I marvel that he tarries here.

An I were he, I think I'd travel for a year or two." "What weakness made you spare him when ye had him at the point of your sword ?" "That which made me regret that I had him there; the reflection that he is my brother." Sir Richard looked at him in some surprise.

"I thought you of sterner stuff, Justin," he said presently, and sighed, passing a long white hand across his bony brow.

"I thought I had reared you to a finer strength.
But there! What of Ostermore himself ?" "What of him ?" "Have you not talked again with him of the matter of going over to King James ?" "To what end, since the chance is lost?
His betrayal now would involve the betrayal of Atterbury and the others--for he has been in touch with them." "Has he though?
The bishop said naught of this." "I have it from my lord himself--and I know the man.

Were he taken they'd wring out of him whatever happened to be in him.