In the morning they found the robber's footprints in the damp dirt of the road and measured them.

The whole countryside was afire with excitement and searching the woods and fields for the highwayman.
"Mr.Purvis," who had lost confidence suddenly in the whole world, had been found, soon after daylight next morning, under a haycock in the field of a farmer who was getting in his hay.

Our hired man rose up and reported in fearful tones.

A band of robbers--not one, or two, even, but a band of them--had chased him up the road and one of their bullets had torn the side of his trousers, in support of which assertion he showed the tear.

With his able assistance we see at a glance both the quality and the state of mind prevailing among the humbler citizens of the countryside.