“Do,” said Sir Richard; “do, colonel, the girl must not be borne away from my house in this manner.”
“You speak and look as if I had had something to do with the affair, Sir Richard.”
“Whatever I think is my own business, Colonel Blood; but believe me I shall inform the king of all I know and suspect, and shall attend the levée next Thursday for that special purpose.”
Blood blustered out some angry words, and left the mansion, pretending to be in a great rage with “those villainous rascals” who had stolen the girl away.
Yet when he got into the open air again he could not but laugh heartily at the success of his plans.
He went towards the palace, and there it was that he encountered Ned Warbeck, Lieutenant Garnet, and Bob Bertram, of which we have spoken in another place.
But what became of Barnabas the Jew the next chapter will show.
CHAPTER LVIII.
A ROUGH RECEPTION—THE JEW ON HIS TRAVELS—ANDY, THE MANIAC LOVER, MEETS BARNABAS.