“I had the Count of Conningsmarke’s Word,” answered the Captain, “but he hath failed me—” “Will you Fail us?” asked Stern. The Polander said nothing but watched the Captain in a Troubled Way. The German got to his feet and laid his hand on Vratz’s Shoulder. “If my Lord hath gone to _Gravesend_ in a Black Periwig–should not we go after him and slip down _the Thames_ to _Margate_ where we may likely enough get a Ship for Home?” The Captain looked up like one Undecided, then in a moment was on his Feet, for there had come a Great Knocking on the Door; nor did those without Long stay at _Knocking_ but burst open the door and _Entered_. They were Constables and the People of the Inn and in front of them a Man in Squire Thynne’s Liveries carrying a Musquetoon, and on seeing the three he gave a Cry and called out: “That is the man did shoot my Master!” And the Polander saw that it was the Blunderbuss he had Dropt in the _Haymarket_. “Why do you put this on _Us_?” asked Captain Vratz in his ill English. A Constable spoke to him and answered: “We took this Musquetoon to the Maker whose name is thereon, and he told us he had sold it yesterday to one Captain Vratz who lodged at the _Black Bull_.” “I do admit,” answered the Captain, “that I was at the shooting of Mr. Thynne, but I went with the design to Challenge him, he having Refused me Satisfaction, and I took these Two with me as Protection, Mr. Thynne being a Gentleman who has commonly a great Press of Servants about him which he might have set on me. And in the _Melée_ my Servant fired and that I know nothing of.” At this they were all three disarmed and arrested, at which the Polander Wept mightily. And when they had a Lodgement in Prison it came to them that my Lord of Conningsmarke had been arrested at _Deptford_ by an Agent of the Duke of Monmouth when he had been taking a Pair of Sculls for _Gravesend_. In the Prison they were separated and the Polander sat alone till his trial and when they Pressed him he said that he had Acted only as His Master Directed and that was the Law he had been brought up in–to obey his Master; and he added that not having been Strengthened against the deed after the Recital of the Lord’s Prayer he Concluded that God had meant him to do this thing. Stern also Confessed to the Fact and accused the Captain of drawing him into a Snare, but Vratz maintained his first Story and would not bring my Lord into the Business. And the Count of Conningsmarke denied all of them. Now this Trial was held before the Lord Chief Justice and the other Great Judges with manifest and open Fairness, according to the _English_ Law, even to have the Jury part Foreign and giving all rights to the Prisoners, such as having an Interpreter, one _Vandore_, who interpreted to them all the _English_ Spoken, putting it into _High Dutch_ or _French_.