Lord Rufford, Hampton, Larry Twentyman and others sat stock-still on their horses, watching the gorse.

Ned Botsey urged himself a little forward down the hill, and was creeping on when Captain Glomax asked him whether he would be so -- -- ---- obliging kind as to remain where he was for half a minute.

Ned took the observations in good part and stopped his horse.

"Does he do all that cursing and swearing for the L2,000 ?" asked the Senator.
The fox traversed the gorse back from side to side and from corner to corner again and again.

There were two sides certainly at which he might break, but though he came out more than once he could not be got to go away.
"They'll kill him now before he breaks," said the elder Botsey.
"Brute!" exclaimed his brother.
"They're hot on him now," said Hampton.