He's a self-seeking dog, content to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, so that there be profit in it, and he'd sacrifice his ears to bring Mr.Caryll to the gallows.

I have promised him that and a thousand pounds if we save the estates from confiscation." She looked at him, between wonder and fear.

"Can ye trust him ?" she asked breathlessly.
He laughed softly and confidently.

"I can trust him to earn a thousand pounds," he answered.

"When he heard of the impeachment, he used such influence as he has to be entrusted with the arrest of his lordship; and having obtained his warrant, he came first to me to tell me of it.