"None!"
"Nothing's proved!" he cried, with animation; "I bear the king's commission against piracy."
"The more guilty then, that, under cover of it, you commit piracies. This king's commission! Do not all men know 'twas given thee because you knew the haunts of a dangerous horde of pirates in the Indian seas, having been one of them, though now their foe and rival; and, by giving thee employment, to keep thee out of mischief?"
"'Tis false!"
"I've heard enough. More I could tell thee of recent occurrence."
"Ha, dost thou know—has the boy told—"
"Nothing. I know enough. Your guilt is written out upon the sky! He that runs may read it! Go on; slay and pillage. You have a love of human blood, and, like the wolf, who, once tasting it, will touch no other, glut thyself till satiate."
"Kate!"
"Away, sir! Speak not, come not near me! Thy touch, thy very glance is pollution."
She turned to fly towards the Hall as she spoke, but, darting forward, he caught her by the arm.