"Not directly, perhaps; but in view of your message to Lord Carteret, his lordship has desired me to come in person to inquire into this matter for him, before proceeding farther.

This fellow," indicating Green, "brought information from you that a Jacobite--an agent of James Stuart--is being detained here, and that your lordship has a communication to make to the secretary of state." Rotherby bowed his assent.

"All I desired that Mr.Green should do meanwhile," said he, "was to procure a warrant for this man's arrest.

My revelations would have followed that.

Has he the warrant ?" "Your lordship may not be aware," said Mr.Templeton, with an increased precision of diction, "that of late so many plots have been disclosed and have proved in the end to be no plots at all, that his lordship has resolved to proceed now with the extremest caution.