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I like the lad , and have made him welcome here for your sake . He is a thoughtful lad , and a clever one ; but it is your thoughtful men who plot treason , and until the storm be overpast , it is best that you see as little of him as may be . And now I have eaten my supper , and it is long past the time that you should have been in bed . Send down word by Thomas Hardway to Master Drake , my steward , to bid him send early in the morning notices that all my tenants shall assemble here to-morrow at four in the afternoon , and bid the cook come to me . We shall have a busy day to-morrow , for the Furness tenantry never gather at the hall and go out empty . And short though be the notice , they shall not do so this time , which to some of us may , perchance , be the last . '' The next day there was bustle and hurry at Furness Hall .