"Nothing official, 'tis true; but remember he is three thousand miles from London and therefore able to think for himself. With you to help him——"
I felt something brush against my coat sleeve and looked around. I had just time to see the back of a gaudy red coat and a woolly black head, crowned by an ornate cocked hat, disappearing in the crowd.
"Do you see?" I said.
"Aye," responded Juggins grimly; "I might have known it. Well, 'tis a lesson in time. We will not forget it."
IV
FIVE BERTHS ON THE NEW VENTURE
We turned from Whitehall into the crowded Strand.
"Murray will figure that this delay gives him time to bribe and buy his will, either in Governor Burnet's Council or in the Government here," continued Master Juggins, with a watchful eye against the return of the spy. "At the worst he will think that he should be able to withstand the law's execution for several years, and in that time much may be done—aye, much may be done, and in more than one way." he concluded grimly.
"Then doubtless Murray will send at once a swift messenger to New York so that his friends may set to work in his interest," I suggested.
Juggins stopped abruptly in the center of the footway.