At that instant he turned his eyes again to the Scarf Gap.

The three men had covered the top, and were on the more level side of the hill, riding hard down towards Ennerdale.

They would be upon him in ten minutes more.
The woman was coming from her house with a cup of milk in her hand; but, without waiting to accept of it, Sim started away and ran at his utmost speed over the fell.

The woman stood with the cup in her hand, watching the thin figure vanishing in the distance, and wondering if it had been an apparition.
V."You can't understand why Mr.Wilfrey Lawson is so keen to lay hands on this man Ray ?" said Constable David.
"That I cannot," said Constable Jonathan.
"Why, isn't it enough that he was in the trained bands of the Parliament ?" "Enough for the King--and this new law of Puritan extermination--yes; for Master Wilfrey--no.

Besides, the people can't stand this hanging of the old Puritan soldiers much longer.