The Buccaneer - A Tale

"Is it your Highness's pleasure that I take no receipt?"

"It is not needed--you can return hither by the evening meal."

The secretary bowed, and withdrew; and at the same moment, the trampling

of many horses sounded in the paved court-yard; and looking from the

window, Cromwell beheld the arrival of Colonel Jones, and his prisoner,

Sir Willmott Burrell.