Would ye be forsworn ? Would you desert me -- a perjurer ? '' `` Nay , I sware for the best , '' returned Dick . `` I meant it too ; but now ! But look ye , Jack , turn again with me . Let me but warn these men , and , if needs must , stand shot with them ; then shall all be clear , and I will on again to Holywood and purge mine oath . '' `` Ye but deride me , '' answered Matcham . `` These men ye go to succour are the I same that hunt me to my ruin . '' Dick scratched his head . `` I can not help it , Jack , '' he said . `` Here is no remedy . What would ye ? Ye run no great peril , man ; and these are in the way of death . Death ! '' he added . `` Think of it ! What a murrain do ye keep me here for ? Give me the windac . Saint George ! shall they all die ? ''
`` Richard Shelton , '' said XXXXX , looking him squarely in the face , `` would ye , then , join party with Sir Daniel ?
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