Harry looked through all these papers himself, hoping to find some clue to the inveterate animosity of Mr. Berkeley. But though he was disappointed in this, he discovered three papers which seemed to him of particular interest, and which he kept carefully apart from the others. The first was a brief note in French from Monsieur de Polignac, written from the head-quarters of Marshal Tallard, congratulating Aglionby on his commission in the Bavarian forces, and asking him to meet the writer as soon as circumstances permitted. From this Harry concluded either that Polignac had not been concerned in the attempt to drown Aglionby in the Merk, or that he was a man of consummate and unblushing duplicity. The second was a letter from Mr. Berkeley himself, written long before. The squire spoke of enclosing money, and referred to the matter of H—— R——, hoping that the captain would make a better job of this commission than with the M—— M——, by which Harry understood the name of the vessel that had carried him down the Thames. The letter continued: "I shall require of you cleare proofe of your profess’d Zeale in my service before I despatch any further Remittance. It will beseeme you to send me an Attested Copie of such _Forme of Certificate_ as is usual in Holland. Let nothing stande in the way of this moste necessarie Document; I doubt not that among the _Notable People_ with whom you at present consorte there will be founde a _respectable_ Attorney to whom the Businesse may be with suretie confided." This letter left no possibility of doubt that Mr. Berkeley was prepared to stick at nothing to remove Harry; but it threw no light on his motive, and Harry was as much perplexed as ever. The third of the papers was a letter from a certain Anne Consterdine in Westminster, addressed to Aglionby at the Hague. "This is to advise you", it ran, "that the Packett from M. de P—— despatch’d by the hands of the Honnest Captin came safely to my hands. The Gratification that you use to recieve will be pay’d to you at the same Place as afore. I am bid by the _Friende_ at St. J—— to say that besides this your Name & Services have been noted with a speciall Marke, & will be _rewarded_ with all Rightfull Diligence when the _Good Shippe_ you wot of comes safe to Port." To Harry this letter was a mere enigma; it bore no special significance; but he gained enlightenment when he showed it to Fanshawe. That young man was three years older than Harry, and had moved in a more varied society. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, on reading the letter, "your friend Aglionby has many irons in the fire. ’Tis clear he is a go-between, and the correspondence, being betwixt Westminster and the Hague, can mean but one thing. The ’good ship’, too—what can that be but the ship that is to convey the Pretender to England to assume his father’s crown? Your Aglionbys and Polignacs are Jacobites, Harry; there will be another bone to pick with them."