It was announced that a Methodist preacher lately settled at Morwick, and greatly respected throughout the district, had dreamed of John Jago in the character of a murdered man, whose bones were hidden at Morwick Farm.

Before night the cry was general for a verification of the preacher's dream.

Not only in the immediate district, but in the town of Narrabee itself, the public voice insisted on the necessity of a search for the mortal remains of John Jago at Morwick Farm.
In the terrible turn which matters had now taken, Mr.Meadowcroft the elder displayed a spirit and an energy for which I was not prepared.
"My sons have their faults," he said, "serious faults; and nobody knows it better than I do.

My sons have behaved badly and ungratefully toward John Jago; I don't deny that, either.

But Ambrose and Silas are not murderers.