"Nor do I see, Sir William,
what better course you can adopt than to follow his counsel."

"Truly," said Berkeley, "the young man has proven himself the very Elihu
of counsellors. 'Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged
understand judgment. But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration
of the Almighty giveth them understanding.' Yet I fear, Colonel Temple,
you will scarcely, after my impetuosity just now, deem me a Job for
patience, though Alfred may be an Elihu for understanding. Your counsel
is good, young man. Let the knave be brought hither to testify, and look
ye that the prisoner be introduced to confront him. My friends, Ballard
and Temple, are such sticklers for law, that we must not deviate from
Magna Charta or the Petition of Right. But stay, we will postpone this
matter till the morrow. I had almost forgotten it was the Sabbath. Loyal
churchmen should venerate the day, even when treason is abroad in the
land. Meantime, let the villain Berkenhead be kept in close custody,
lest he should escape."

FOOTNOTES:

[42] The coin during the reign of Charles II.

CHAPTER XXIX.

"I tell thee what, my friend,
He is a very serpent in my way."
_King John._

The reader will naturally desire to know what induced the milder counsel
recommended by Alfred Bernard to the Governor. If we have been
successful in impressing upon the mind of the reader a just estimate of
the character of the young jesuit, he will readily conjecture that it
was from no kindly feeling for his rival, and no inherent love of
justice that he suggested such a policy; and if he be of a different
opinion, he need only go back with us to the interview between Bernard
and Berkenhead, to which allusion was made in the chapter immediately
preceding the last.

We have said that Alfred Bernard followed the renegade rebel until they
stood together beneath a large oak tree which stood at the corner of the
house. Here they stopped as if by mutual, though tacit consent, and
Berkenhead turning sharply around upon his companion, said in an
offended tone--"What is your further will with me sir?"

"You seem not to like your comrade Major Hansford?"

"Oh well enough," replied Berkenhead; "there are many better and many
worse than him. But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor
soldier can have any concernment with you."

"I assure you," said Bernard, "it is from no impertinent curios