'This is the public highway.' 'Now look here, youngster,' said Owlett.

'O, 'tis the Methodist parson!--what, and Mrs.Newberry! Well, you'd better not go up that way, Lizzy.

They've all run off, and folks have got their own again.' The miller then hastened on and joined his comrades.

Stockdale and Lizzy also turned back.

'I wish all this hadn't been forced upon us,' she said regretfully.