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He saw you come here last night; he knows you are here now or guesses it." I had no right to pry into her confidence as a thief would break into a house. But I was loath to fight my battle in the dark if she, or any one, could give me light. "His name, if you may give it, Mistress Margery. It may point the way out of this coil." "'Tis Owen Pengarvin. He was here last night when you came."
Yet there be playful gibes that hint at gibbets; and I may confess to you here, my dears, that I left my Lord's presence with the conviction that my acquittal was but a reprieve conditioned upon the best of future good behavior. So it took another turn of the audacity screw to tune me up for the battle royal with Gilbert Stair and the pettifogger, Owen Pengarvin.
"I mean that we shall have a file of redcoats down upon us as soon as ever Mr. Owen Pengarvin can give the alarm." "Oho!" said Dick; and then he pulled his sword from its scabbard, and I could see the battle-veins swelling in his forehead. "They can hang me when I am too dead to cut and thrust more not sooner." I got me up and went to find the sword which I had laid aside in the horse-baiting.
"Too late!" said Dick; and with an arm about Margery he whipped behind the great oaken door opened back against the cellar wall, whispering me to follow. We were scarce in hiding, with the door well drawn back to screen us, when the cautious footsteps came slowly into the out-cellar. Peeping through the crack behind the door we saw Pengarvin alone.
"Speaking for myself, I shall leave no stone unturned to bring you to book, Captain, when it suits my purpose." I was loath to go to extremities with either of them; but my bridge of glass must be defended at all hazards. "You would best reconsider, Mr. Pengarvin. At this present moment I am of my Lord Cornwallis's military family and I have his confidence.
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