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Fly, if there yet be time for you, before That crafty spy, Lord Burleigh, track your schemes, And mix his traitors in your secret plots. Fly hence: as yet, success hath never smiled On Mary Stuart's champions.
Bohemund, by means of a spy who had embraced the Christian religion, and to whom he had given his own name at baptism, kept up a daily communication with this captain, and made him the most magnificent promises of reward, if he would deliver up his post to the Christian knights.
'Deus! exclaimed the Countess, tossing her head weariedly, and Harry perceived his slip, and down he went again. What wonder that a youth in such training should consent to fetch and carry, to listen and relate, to play the spy and know no more of his office than that it gave him astonishing thrills of satisfaction, and now and then a secret sweet reward?
"What do you say?" exclaimed Thayendanegea, as he ran forward, "a spy, and you know him to be such!" "Yes, he is the worst of them all," replied Wyatt. "I know him. I could not mistake him. But he has dared too much. He cannot get away." The great camp was now in an uproar. The tall figure was seen here and there, always to vanish quickly. Twenty shots were fired at it. None hit.
He could have had me hanged as a spy. I suppose I ought to be thankful to him, but I am not.” And Calhoun shuddered when he thought how near he had been to death. “That was kind of him,” said Morgan; “and you ought to be thankful to him, whether you are or not. To tell the truth, I took a great fancy to young Shackelford, and tried hard to get him to cast his lot with me.
But how was all this to be accomplished? how was I to become a watcher and a listener a spy ever active, and an eavesdropper ever awake without exciting suspicions which would lead to the frustration of my designs, and perhaps involve both myself and my brother in ruin?
Ay, he's a grand lad, as you say, and it was real plucky the way he nabbed that German spy and got the papers. No wonder the King thinks such a lot of him." Upon this George Lister filled his pipe slowly, and there was a look of pride in his eyes. As for Alice, she sobbed for very joy when she went to her room that night.
And then one, nimbler witted than the rest, climbed out along the common above the northern cliff, whereby, when he had come to the great slope, he took the Coupée cliff in flank, and could spy along its base. And suddenly he stopped, and stiffened like a pointer sighting his bird, peered intently for a moment, and gave tongue. The chase was ended.
It seemed to him that he would now have a chance of proving to Arabi that he Helmar was only a very small man on the British side, and that he was no spy at all, but merely a paid interpreter. Such being the case, there was no reason why he should be shot, for it was against the ethics of warfare. Consequently he was delighted at the prospect, and told Naoum so.
Walter Skinner had been gone over night, and the second day of his flight was well begun when the king, impatient over the slowness of De Skirlaw and De Kellaw, sent from Clipstone to Newark to have the spy brought before him. In haste the bailiff went to the room where he had placed him, and no prisoner was there.