"I know nothing whatever about any Thorn, and I saw nobody but Dick Hare.

Not but what a dozen Thorns might have run from the cottage without my seeing them." "You heard the shot fired ?" "Yes; but I never gave a thought to mischief.

I knew Locksley was in the wood, and supposed it came from him.

I ran across the path, bearing toward the cottage, and struck into the wood on the other side.

By and by, Dick Hare pitched upon me, like one startled out of his seven senses, and asked if I had seen Thorn leave the cottage.