"He looks too small to have done it," said Miss Bertram, smiling; for though Roy was Dudley's senior by two months, he was a good head shorter.

Bishop Briconnet recants,and Martial Mazurier; and Victor Le Roy is no braver man, no truer man than these!" With bitter shame and self-scorning he spoke.

Poor little Roy, with his uncertain health, was heir to a very large property of his father's not far away; and the responsibilities awaiting him, and the knowledge that he would have so much power in his hands, perhaps had the effect of making him weigh life more seriously than would most boys of his age.

" "Oh, of course," assented Roy, pondering in his own mind what sort of a machine this mysterious Mortlake craft was.

But Roy was very near tears.

And soon Roy and I were a mile from the house.

Victor Le Roy was his ardent admirer, his constant follower, his loving friend, his servant.

" "But what is 'plumage,' Uncle Roy?" asked Dodo; "I thought you were talking about feathers.

Roy was my only comfort.

Sometimes conversation would bear a large part in the lessons, especially when Roy was the teacher.

The Scottish nobles and gentry engaged in the insurrection of 1715 were particularly anxious to further the escape of Sir Frederick Vernon, who, as an old and trusted agent of the house of Stuart, was possessed of matter enough to have ruined half Scotland, and Rob Roy was the person whom they pitched upon to assist his escape.

But Roy, as those who have followed his and Peggy's adventures know, was not the boy to weakly give way to despair before he had exhausted every possible hope, and not even then.

Roy was now the possessor of a cork leg; and with the help of a stick he was nearly as active as ever.

"That's no wonder," said John; "didn't you know that Farmer Grey's old Duchess was the mother of them both?" I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother!

Roy and Peggy Prescott were orphans living in the care of their aunt, Miss Prescott, the location of whose home on Long Island has already been described.