t is late, and beyond your time for bed; quite
mine, too. And so this young French Englishman whom you have sheltered
is on his way with that fellow Wrigg to Loo Creek, where he is to join a
lugger, and be set ashore at Cherbourg?"

"Yes, father. But you will not send the soldiers in chase of him now?"

"Not to-night, my boy," was the reply, "for I am too worn out and weary
for anything but bed. I will sleep upon it and see what I think is my
duty on the subject to-morrow morning."

"Ah," thought Waller Froy, as he went slowly up, candle in hand, to the
room from which his prisoner had so lately escaped; and his first act
was to pick up the jacket Godfrey Boyne had thrown upon the floor.

"Why, I needn't have minded," said Waller to himself. "It's my jacket
that I lent him; and I feel so comfortable and easy now that dad knows
all. There, I believe I can sleep better to-night than I have for a
month."

He descended to his bedroom, feeling rather sad, though, as he thought
of his late companion's journey through the darkness of the night.

Then, as he slowly undressed and laid his head upon the pillow, he had
one more wandering thought:

"Will father do anything more about that poor fellow Boyne?"

The next minute Waller Froy had ceased to think, and thought no more
till he opened his eyes upon the light of another bright autumn morning.

"Father said he would sleep upon it. What will he say to me when we
meet?" And then another question flashed through his brain: "France
isn't so very far away; I wonder whether Godfrey Boyne and I will ever
meet again?"

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