The conditions under which he obtained the espial of one of the King's most trusted friends, and a member of the 'Sealed Knot,' formed a complete protection to the Earl of Rochester and his associates.
I saw not what was to be gained by any such long-range espial in the darkness.
Just then the shutter to the little window of espial fell open with a shrill creaking of its rusty hinges, and a blue glare of lightning came to prick out every nook and corner of the cellar.
Inasmuch as the most favorable point of espial upon the camp below was the cliff whence we had first looked down into the sink, we harked back thither, passing around the lower end of the valley and along the barrier ridge.
They heard a vehicle draw up before the house, and Barbara, making cautious espial from the windows, exclaimed that it was Mr. Musselwhite.
It was even possible, he thought, that, if she had not herself seen Cecily, some one in her employment had made the espial for her.
He remembered his reluctant consent to McCloskey's proposal touching the espial upon Hallock, and was sorry he had given it.
