"My lord," he said to Caryll, "your contentions appear clear.

It is a matter in which I fear I can go no further; nor do I now think that the secretary of state would approve of my issuing a warrant upon such testimony as we have received.

The matter is one for Lord Carteret himself." "I shall do myself the honor of waiting upon his lordship within the hour," said the new Lord Ostermore.

"As for the letter which it is alleged I brought from France--from the Pretender,"-- he was smiling now, a regretful, deprecatory smile, "it is a fortunate circumstance that, being suspected by that very man Green, who stands yonder, I was subjected, upon my arrival in England, to a thorough search at Maidstone--a search, it goes without saying, that yielded nothing.

I was angry at the time, at the indignity I was forced to endure.