m to Mr. Clarke, who entered into a conditional bond; and, with the
assistance of his uncle, deposited the money, to be forthcoming when the
conditions should be fulfilled. These previous measures being taken, the
coachman declared what he knew, and discovered the house in which Sir
Launcelot had been immured. He, moreover, accompanied our two adherents
to a judge's chamber, where he made oath to the truth of his information;
and a warrant was immediately granted to search the house of Bernard
Shackle, and set at liberty Sir Launcelot Greaves, if there found.

Fortified with this authority, they engaged a constable, with a
formidable posse, and, embarking them in coaches, repaired with all
possible expedition to the house of Mr. Shackle, who did not think proper
to dispute their claim, but admitted them, though not without betraying
evident symptoms of consternation. One of the servants directing them,
by his master's order, to Sir Launcelot's apartment, they hurried
upstairs in a body, occasioning such a noise as did not fail to alarm the
physician, who had just opened the door to retire, when he perceived
their irruption. Captain Crowe conjecturing he was guilty from the
confusion that appeared in his countenance, made no scruple of seizing
him by the collar as he endeavoured to retreat; while the tender-hearted
Tom Clarke, running up to the knight, with his eyes brimful of joy and
affection, forgot all the forms of distant respect, and throwing his arms
round his neck, blubbered in his bosom.

Our hero did not receive this proof of attachment unmoved. He strained
him in his embrace, honoured him with the title of his deliverer, and
asked him by what miracle he had discovered the place of his confinement.
The lawyer began to unfold the various steps he had taken with equal
minuteness and self-complacency, when Crowe, dragging the doctor still by
the collar, shook his old friend by the hand, protesting he was never so
overjoyed since he got clear of a Sallee rover on the coast of Barbary;
and that two glasses ago he would have started all the money he had in
the world in the hold of any man who would have shown Sir Launcelot safe
at his moorings. The knight having made a proper return to this sincere
manifestation of goodwill, desired him to dismiss that worthless fellow,
meaning the doctor; who, finding himself released, withdrew with some
precipitation.

Then our adventurer, attended by his friends, walked off