But, young sir, you must catch your puppy ere you hang him, and if he is in this marsh he must have gone to ground." "I think so, too, Sir Edmund; but, if so, we'll soon start the badger.
Look yonder." And he pointed to smoke rising at several spots half a mile or more away.
"What have you done, son ?" asked Sir John anxiously.
"Fired the reeds," he said with a savage laugh, "and set men to watch that the game does not break back.

Oh, have no fear, father! Red Eve will take no harm.

The girl ever loved fire.

Moreover, if she is there she will run to the water before it, and be caught." "Fool," thundered Sir John, "do you know your sister so little?
As like as not she'll stay and burn, and then I'll lose my girl, who, when all is said, is worth ten of you! Well, what is done cannot be undone, but if death comes of this mad trick it is on your head, not mine! To the bank, and watch with me, Sir Edmund, for we can do no more." Ten minutes later, and the fugitives in the mound, peeping out from their hole, saw clouds of smoke floating above them.
"You should have let me shoot, Master Hugh," said Grey Dick, in his hard, dry whisper.

"I'd have had these three, at least, and they'd have been good company on the road to hell, which now we must walk alone." "Nay," answered Hugh sternly, "I'll murder none, though they strive to murder us, and these least of all," and he glanced at Eve, who sat staring out of the mouth of the hole, her chin resting on her hand.