"How! you must be beside yourself to come to me--_me!_--Rupert! on such an errand!  Because, forsooth, I exchanged civilities with one I held an honourable enemy, you dare to expect my interest on behalf of a regicide!  I vow, sir, every man who even witnessed that most abominable and unnatural murder should swing, did it depend on me.  Go to those of your own party, who have had the wit to secure their own necks; maybe they may also have the skill to juggle your kinsman out of jail."