The scars his dark, broad bosom wore,
Showed warrior true and brave;
A prince among his tribe before—"
Bryant.
"A manifest Papist! I can scent one of them out as easily as a hound doth the hare," said Endicott, after the lady had retired.
"Beyond a peradventure," echoed Dudley; "and the attempt at deception doth aggravate her guilt."
"I, too, remarked," said an Assistant, "that she possesses not the shibboleth whereunto she laid claim."
"Yet, wherefore should they, being Papists, come hither?" said Master Nowell. "I understand not the mystery that surrounds them."
"A circumstance in itself suspicious," said Endicott, "wherefore needs an honest intent to hide its head?"
"On the contrary, it is ever ready to show itself in the sunlight," said Master Nowell.