12/27 What right have you to fire our grass ?" "Who fired it first ?" "It lighted itself. That's no rule why you should light it more. You give over, or I punch your head for you." Harry's men and Medlicot were advancing toward him, trampling out their own embers as they came; and Georgie Brownbie, who was alone, when he saw that there were four or five men against him, turned round and rode back. "He's probably the very man who set the match, and yet he comes and brazens it out with me." "I don't think he's the man who set the match," said Medlicot, quietly; "at any rate there was another." "Who was it ?" "My man, Nokes. I saw him with the torch in his hand." "Heaven and earth!" "Yes, Mr.Heathcote.I saw him put it down. |