"I listen," he said, inwardly quaking at he knew not what.
"Do you remember the night my father was arrested?"
"I do."
"And how you that day took a journey to be away from us in our trouble?"
"I certainly took a short journey that day, but—" his eyes flickering with the uneasiness of guilt.
"And do you remember a conversation you had with Lysander under a bridge?"
His face suddenly flushed purple. "The villain has betrayed me!" he thought. Then he stammered, "I hope you have not been listening to any of that fellow's slanders!"
"You talked with Lysander under the bridge. Your conversation was heard, every word of it, by a third person, who lay concealed under the planks, behind you."
"A villanous spy!" articulated Augustus.
"No spy—but the man you two were at that moment seeking to kill: Penn Hapgood, the Schoolmaster."