At last I heard Dolly cry out very loud; then I heard the parlour-door open and three or four men came tumbling out, who ran beneath my hiding-hole and out through the kitchen passage to the stable.

I was all a-tremble now, especially at my cousin's cry; but I gave her credit for being as shrewd still as I had heard her to be on the stairs; and I proved right in the event; for almost immediately after that my Cousin Tom was let come downstairs, and I heard every word, of the colloquy.
"Well, Mr.Jermyn," said the gentleman's voice, immediately without my little door, "I am sorry indeed to have troubled you in this way; but I am the King's justice of the peace and I must do my duty.

Which way did you say Mr.Mallock was gone ?" "By...by Puckeridge," stammered poor Tom.
"Ah! indeed," said the other voice, with something of a sneer in it.
"Why Mistress Dorothy here says it was by Barkway and so to Harwich; and of the two versions I prefer the lady's.

For, first, we should have seen him if he had come by Puckeridge, since we have been lying there since three o'clock this afternoon; and second, no such man in his senses would go to Rome by London.

I am sorry I cannot commend your truthfulness, Mr.Jermyn, as much as your professions of loyalty." "I tell you--" began my Cousin Tom, angrily enough.
"I need no telling, Mr.Jermyn.Your cousin is gone by Barkway; and my men are gone to get the horses out to follow him.