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LIZA'S WILES.
The procession had just emerged from the lane, and had turned into the old road that hugged the margin of the mere, when two men walked slowly by in the opposite direction.

Dark as it had been when Willy encountered these men before, he had not an instant's doubt as to their identity.
The reports of Ralph's disappearance, which Matthew had so assiduously promulgated in whispers, had reached the destination which Ralph had designed for them.

The representatives of the Carlisle high constable were conscious that they had labored under serious disadvantages in their efforts to capture a dalesman in his own stronghold of the mountains.

Moreover, their zeal was not so ardent as to make them eager to risk the dangers of an arrest that was likely to be full of peril.