LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[With a gesture between contempt and impatience the duke removed his hat]. Frontispiece.
[In an instant I was on the other side of the fence.]
[Stole down the stairs and into the garden.]
[My companion seized my wrist.]
[The constable led me out of the crowd.]
["When my back is turned go through that window."]
[He wore a dingy morning-gown and had laid aside his wig.]
["Damn your King William, and you too!" he cried.]
[He pressed the ring of cold steel.]
[In the great chair sat an elderly lady leaning on an ebony stick.]
[I heard a light foot following me.]
[With a gesture between contempt and impatience the duke removed his hat.]
[I flung my arms round him from behind, and with my right hand jerked up the pistol.]
[A slight gentleman ambled and paced in front of a child.]
["Now we will have that letter, if you please."]
[I saw a man had come to a stand before the door.]
[The place was nothing more than a concealed cupboard.]
[And turning from me, he began to pace the room, his hands clasped behind him.]
[She came a step nearer to me, and peered at me.]
[Sir John ... stared at me a moment.]
[She listened in silence, standing over me with something of the severity of a judge.]
[He shut himself in with his trouble.]
[I stood there at last ... the faces at the table all turned towards me.]