This is all that need be said: and you may think it superfluous to have described it at all: but it is not so.
The boy Ripper at length came forth.

With a shuddering avoidance of the water he came tearing along as one running from a ghost, and was darting past the trees, when he found himself detained by an arm of great strength.

Mr.Pike clapped his other hand upon the boy's mouth, stifling a howl of terror.
"Do you see this, Rip ?" cried he.
Rip did see it.

It was a pistol held rather inconveniently close to the boy's breast.

Rip dearly loved his life; but it nearly went out of him then with fear.
"Now," said Pike, "I've come up to know about this business of Lord Hartledon's, and I will know it, or leave you as dead as he is.