Perhaps the fellows may be quiet for a time, for they must, during the last month, have got a wonderful amount of spoil.

Maybe they will go west--the Bath road is always a favorite one with these fellows--maybe they will work the northern side of the town.

I hope we shall lay hands upon them one day, but so far I may say frankly we have not the slightest clew." "But they must put their horses up somewhere ?" "Yes, but unfortunately there are so many small wayside inns, that it is next to impossible to trace them.

A number of these fellows are in alliance with the highwaymen.

Some of them, too, have small farms in addition to their public house businesses, and the horses may be snugly put up there, while we are searching the inn stables in vain.