I suppose these fellows'll lend a hand with carrying these things up to the gates.
They'll not risk their precious skins much by doing that!' Perley and Dodge replied with alacrity that so far they would gladly oblige the Squire, and they began to shoulder the hurdles.
It was at that moment that the Squire caught the eye of the black-coated man, who had been observing the whole proceedings from about ten yards off.

The expression of the eye roused in Mannering an itching desire to lay immediate hands on its possessor.

He strode up to him.
'I don't know, sir, why you stand there, looking on at things that are no business of yours,' he said angrily.

'If you want to know your way anywhere, one of my men here will show you.' 'Oh, thank you,' said the other tranquilly.

'I know my way perfectly.' He held up an ordnance map, which he carried in his hand.