One of the farm-servants might take a horse and gallop across the fields to fetch this man.
Robert Dunn, the bailiff, heard her cries presently and came to her.

He was very much shocked by his master's condition, and at once agreed to the necessity of summoning a surgeon.

He proposed that they should carry Stephen Whitelaw to some stables, which lay at a safe distance from the burning house, and make up some kind of bed for him there.

He ran back to dispatch one of the men to Crosber, and returned immediately with another to remove his master.
But when they tried to raise the injured man between them, he cried out to them to let him alone, they were murdering him.

Let him lie where he was; he would not be moved.