r Adam's abstracted air, "or let me rather speak a word
to thy fair daughter; women have ready wit, and are the pioneers to
the advance of men! Adam, Adam! thou art dreaming!"--He shook the
philosopher's arm roughly.

"I heed you," said Warner, meekly.

"The first thing required," renewed Hilyard, "is a permit to see King
Henry. This is obtained either from the Lord Worcester, governor of
the Tower, a cruel man, who may deny it, or the Lord Hastings, Edward's
chamberlain, a humane and gentle one, who will readily grant it. Let not
thy daughter know why thou wouldst visit Henry; let her suppose it is
solely to make report of his health to Margaret; let her not know there
is scheming or danger,--so, at least, her ignorance will secure her
safety. But let her go to the lord chamberlain, and obtain the order
for a learned clerk to visit the learned prisoner--to--ha! well thought
of--this strange machine is, doubtless, the invention of which thy
neighbours speak; this shall make thy excuse; thou wouldst divert the
prisoner with thy mechanical--comprehendest thou, Adam?"

"Ah, King Henry will see the model, and when he is on the throne--"

"He will protect the scholar!" interrupted Hilyard. "Good! good! Wait
here; I will confer with thy daughter." He gently pushed aside Adam,
opened the door, and on descending the stairs, found Sibyll by the large
casement where she had stood with Marmaduke, and heard the rude stave of
the tymbesteres.

The anxiety the visit of Hilyard had occasioned her was at once allayed,
when he informed her that he had been her father's schoolmate, and
desired to become his friend. And when he drew a moving picture of the
exiled condition of Margaret and the young prince, and their natural
desire to learn tidings of the health of the deposed king, her gentle
heart, forgetting the haughty insolence with which her royal mistress
had often wounded and chilled her childhood, felt all the generous
and compassionate sympathy the conspirator desired to awaken. "The
occasion," added Hilyard, "for learning the poor captive's state now
offers! He hath heard of your father's labours; he desires to learn
their nature from his own lips. He is allowed to receive, by an order
from King Edward's chamberlain, the visits of those scholars in
whose converse he was ever wont to delight. Wilt thou so far aid the
charitable work as to seek the Lord Hastings, and crave the necessary
license? Thou seest that thy father has