Questions could not be asked and answered without stopping in their toil.

There were questions which Harry longed to ask.

Could Medlicot swear to the man?
Did the man know that he had been seen?
If he knew that he had been watched while he lit the grass, he would soon be far away from Medlicot's Mill and Gangoil.

Harry felt that it would be a consolation to him in his trouble if he could get hold of this man, and keep him, and prosecute him--and have him hung.

Even in the tumult of the moment he was able to reflect about it, and to think that he remembered that the crime of arson was capital in the colony of Queensland.