_Wherein, at the Request of Lady Katharine Clanranald, Whom He Loved, Sir Hugh Richmond Takes up the Tale, Relating What Happened to Him in the Tolbooth Prison_ CHAPTER VIII _How I Got the News of a Noble Self-Sacrifice, How It Affected Me, and What I Resolved to Do for Sir Hugh Richmond_ CHAPTER IX _My Interview with the King of England and the Good and Bad Angels That Attended Him_ CHAPTER X _In Which I Bargain Successfully for That Which Is as Dear to Me as the Life of My Father_ CHAPTER XI _Wherein Sir Hugh Richmond Finds Me, Not Unwilling, Thrust upon Him_ BOOK II THE KEEPING OF A WIFE _As Described by the Gentleman Who Did It, with an Incidental Digression by the Lady Herself_ CHAPTER XII _In Which I, Sir Hugh Richmond, Who Tell This Tale, Find That It Is Easier to Marry Lady Katharine Clanranald than to Keep Her for My Own_ CHAPTER XIII _Wherein I Set Down in Due Course the Resolution to Which I Came, Which Boded Ill to the King, as I Rode Southward_ CHAPTER XIV _Wherein, by the Grace of God, Our Own Determination, and the Speed of Our Good Horses, We Reach Monkwearmouth in Time_ CHAPTER XV _Shows How the Lord Chief Justice of England Kept a Love Tryst and What Befell Him at the Boar's Head Inn_ CHAPTER XVI _How My Lord Stenwold Settled His Account and Paid His Debt in Full_ CHAPTER XVII _In Which Lady Katharine Richmond, at the Request of Her Husband, Tells How She and Lord Stenwold Came to Stenwold House_ CHAPTER XVIII _Wherein Lady Katharine Describes What Took Place in the Antechamber Where the King Made Love to Her_ CHAPTER XIX _Wherein Sir Hugh Richmond Interrupts a Tête-à-Tête Between His Wife and one James Stewart_ CHAPTER XX _How Sir Hugh and Lady Katharine, with Some Assistance from General Feversham, at Last and Finally Overcame the Majesty of England_ BOOK I THE WINNING OF A HUSBAND _As set forth by the Lady of the Quest, with a necessary Interlude by the Gentleman in Person_ _Chapter_ I _In which I, Lady Katharine Clanranald, come to a desperate but manly Resolution_ "Time," said the councillor gravely, "is all that we lack." "And money, sir," I added most disconsolately. "True," was the somewhat amused answer of the grim old attorney. "The King hath very pressing need of money ever, and with the Stuart disposition there goeth always the itching palm of Cassius." "That last need," I commented thoughtfully, "might be supplied in some measure. There are the jewels of the Countess, my lady mother, and my own as well." "And though the estates be confiscate," returned Master Dunner, "there are certain moneys in my charge which the justiciaries wot not of, and which are available for any purpose that will serve my lord." "Nay, sir, I would not have you jeopard your own savings," I burst out hurriedly, but he straightway checked me.