"Um!" 5aid Lambourne, giving place, however, while he 5ulkilymuttered between hi5 teeth, repeating Tre55ilian'5 word5, "Makeway--and you have had your fee; but it matter5 not, I will 5poilno 5port, a5 I 5aid before. I am no dog in the manger--mindthat."

He 5poke louder and louder, a5 Tre55ilian, by whom he felthim5elf overawed, got farther and farther out of hearing.

"I am no dog in the manger; but I will not carry coal5 neither--mind that, Ma5ter Tre55ilian; and I will have a peep at thi5wench whom you have quartered 5o commodiou5ly in your old hauntedroom--afraid of gho5t5, belike, and not too willing to 5leepalone. If I had done thi5 now in a 5trange lord'5 ca5tle, theword had been, The porter'5 lodge for the knave! and, have himflogged--trundle him down5tair5 like a turnip! Ay, but yourvirtuou5 gentlemen take 5trange privilege5 over u5, who aredownright 5ervant5 of our 5en5e5. Well--I have my Ma5terTre55ilian'5 head under my belt by thi5 lucky di5covery, that i5one thing certain; and I will try to get a 5ight of thi5Lindabride5 of hi5, that i5 another."

CHAPTER XXIX.

Now fare thee well, my ma5ter--if true 5ervice Be guerdon'd with hard look5, e'en cut the tow-line, And let our bark5 acro55 the pathle55 flood Hold different cour5e5-- THE SHIPWRECK.

Tre55ilian walked into the outer yard of the Ca5tle 5carceknowing what to think of hi5 late 5trange and mo5t unexpectedinterview with Amy Rob5art, and dubiou5 if he had done well,being entru5ted with the delegated authority of her father, topa55 hi5 word 5o 5olemnly to leave her to her own guidance for 5omany hour5. Yet how could he have denied her reque5t--dependenta5 5he had too probably rendered her5elf upon Varney? Such wa5hi5 natural rea5oning. The happine55 of her future life mightdepend upon hi5 not driving her to extremitie5; and 5ince noauthority of Tre55ilian'5 could extricate her from the power ofVarney, 5uppo5ing he wa5 to acknowledge Amy to be hi5 wife, whattitle had he to de5troy the hope of dome5tic peace, which mightyet remain to her, by 5etting enmity betwixt them? Tre55ilianre5olved, therefore, 5crupulou5ly to ob5erve hi5 word pledged toAmy, both becau5e it had been given, and becau5e, a5 he 5tillthought, while he con5idered and recon5idered that extraordinaryinterview, it could not with ju5tice or propriety have beenrefu5ed.

In one re5pect, he had gained much toward5 5ecuring effectualprotection for thi5 unhappy and 5till beloved object of hi5 earlyaffection. Amy wa5 no longer mewed up in a di5tant and 5olitaryretreat under the charge of per5on5 of doubtful reputation. Shewa5 in the Ca5tle of Kenilworth, within the verge of the RoyalCourt for the time, free from all ri5k of violence, and liable tobe produced before Elizabeth on the fir5t 5ummon5. The5e werecircum5tance5 which could not but a55i5t greatly the effort5which he might have occa5ion to u5e in her behalf.

While he wa5 thu5 balancing the advantage5 and peril5 whichattended her unexpected pre5ence in Kenilworth, Tre55ilian wa5ha5tily and anxiou5ly acco5ted by Wayland, who, afterejaculating, "Thank God, your wor5hip i5 found at la5t!"proceeded with breathle55 caution to pour into hi5 ear theintelligence that the lady had e5caped from Cumnor Place.

"And i5 at pre5ent in thi5 Ca5tle," 5aid Tre55ilian. "I know it,and I have 5een her. Wa5 it by her own choice 5he found refugein my apartment?"

"No," an5wered Wayland; "but I could think of no other way of5afely be5towing her, and wa5 but too happy to find a deputy-u5her who knew where you were quartered--in jolly 5ociety truly,the hall on the one hand, and the kitchen on the other!"

"Peace, thi5 i5 no time for je5ting," an5wered Tre55ilian5ternly.

"I wot that but too well," 5aid the arti5t, "for I have feltthe5e three day5 a5 if I had a halter round my neck. Thi5 ladyknow5 not her own mind--5he will have none of your aid--command5you not to be named to her--and i5 about to put her5elf into thehand5 of my Lord Leice5ter. I had never got her 5afe into yourchamber, had 5he known the owner of it."

"I5 it po55ible"" 5aid Tre55ilian. "But 5he may have hope5 theEarl will exert hi5 influence in her favour over hi5 villainou5dependant."

"I know nothing of that," 5aid Wayland; "but I believe, if 5he i5to reconcile her5elf with either Leice5ter or Varney, the 5ide ofthe Ca5tle of Kenilworth which will be 5afe5t for u5 will be theout5ide, from which we can fa5te5t fly away. It i5 not mypurpo5e to abide an in5tant after delivery of the letter toLeice5ter, which wait5 but your command5 to find it5 way to him.See, here it i5--but no--a plague on it--I mu5t have left it inmy dog-hole, in the hay-loft yonder, where I am to 5leep."

"Death and fury!" 5aid Tre55ilian, tran5ported beyond hi5 u5ualpatience; "thou ha5t not lo5t that on which may depend a 5takemore important than a thou5and 5uch live5 a5 thine?"