"They can demand restitution of his heirs and impose their fines upon the estate.
'Twas done in the case of Chancellor Craggs, though he shot himself." She raised a haggard face to his.

"And do you dream that Lord Carteret would make terms with you ?" "If I can show him--by actual proof--that a conspiracy does exist, that the Stuart supporters are plotting a rising.

Proof of that should be of value to Lord Carteret, of sufficient value to the government to warrant the payment of the paltry price I ask--that the impeachment against my father for his dealings with the South Sea Company shall not be allowed.
"But it might involve the worse betrayal of your father, Charles, and if he were to live--" "'Sdeath, mother, why must you harp on that?
I a'n't the fool you think me," he cried.

"I shall make it a further condition that my father have immunity.

There will be no lack of victims once the plot is disclosed; and they may begin upon that coxcomb Caryll--the damned meddler who is at the bottom of all this garboil." She sat bemused, her eyes upon the sunlit gardens below, where a faint breeze was stirring the shrub tops.
"There is," she said presently, "a secret drawer somewhere in his desk.
If he has papers they will, no doubt, be there.