"Sir Morgan Walladmor! I come to let you know that an innocent man is confined under your sanction: the prisoner in the chambers of the Falcon's tower is not the person you take him for."
"And is this your reason for pressing thus unceremoniously to my presence?"
"It is."
"Then appear as a witness for the accused, and give your evidence before the jury by whom he will be tried."
"Sir Morgan, I again assure you that your prisoner is not Captain Edward Nicholas."
"Who then?"
"Let it suffice that he is not Captain Nicholas?"
"But who is it that I am required to believe? Who are you? What vouchers, what security, do you offer for the truth of what you tell me?"
"Security!--You would have security? You shall. Do you remember that time, when the great Dutch ship was cruizing off the coast, and the landing of the crew was nightly expected?"
"I remember it well; for at that time I had beset the coast with faithful followers: political disturbances at Chester and Shrewsbury concurred at that time to make such a descent on the coast a subject of much alarm; and once or twice I watched myself all night through."