'I am on the point of leaving.

I wish not to be a third party.

Say nothing at all about my visit, if it will incommode you so to do.

I will see thee before I go afloat again.' Speaking thus he left the room, and descending the staircase let himself out by the front door, thinking he might obtain a glimpse of the approaching horseman.

But that traveller had in the meantime gone stealthily round to the back of the homestead, and peering along the pinion-end of the house Roger discerned him unbridling and haltering his horse with his own hands in the shed there.
Roger retired to the neighbouring inn called the Black Lamb, and meditated.