A few moments were spent, as if in consulting how to proceed, and then the whole party walked up to the kitchen door.

There was now no one in the kitchen but myself and John Harris.

Henry and Sandy were yet at the barn.

Mr.Freeland came inside the kitchen door, and with an agitated voice, called me by name, and told me to come forward; that there was some gentlemen who wished to see me.

I stepped toward them, at the door, and asked what they wanted, when the constables grabbed me, and told me that I had better not resist; that I had been in a scrape, or was said to have been in one; that they were merely going to take me where I could be examined; that they were going to carry me to St.Michael's, to have me brought before my master.