"Sergeant, you're cheatin' yoursel' an' forgettin' to mark.
Gi'e me the board; I'll mark for both." She put out her hand upon the board, and Sergeant Basket's closed upon it.

'Tis true he had forgot to mark; and feeling the hot pulse in her wrist, and beholding the hunger in her eyes, 'tis to be supposed he'd have forgot his own soul.
He rode away next day with his troop: but my uncle Philip not being caught yet, and the Government set on making an example of him, we hadn't seen the last of these dragoons.

'Twas a time of fear down in the town.

At dead of night or at noonday they came on us--six times in all: and for two months the crew of the _Unity_ couldn't call their souls their own, but lived from day to day in secret closets and wandered the country by night, hiding in hedges and straw-houses.
All that time the revenue men watched the Hauen, night and day, like dogs before a rat-hole.
But one November morning 'twas whispered abroad that Uncle Philip had made his way to Falmouth, and slipped across to Guernsey.

Time passed on, and the dragooners were seen no more, nor the handsome devil-may-care face of Sergeant Basket.