"By Heaven! your words have solved a strange feeling that governed me when I was in his presence to call him by a familiar name! But—"
"He is Lester—and Lester is 'the Kyd.'"
"He fled to sea I have learned, strangely leaving his title, wealth, and home. A pirate?"
"A pirate."
"How learned you this?"
"Through the sorceress Elpsy, and, more recently, through himself."
"You have met him, then?"
"I have, Rupert."
"He pressed upon thee his former passion?"
"He did."