Striking off when he neared the mill, he approached it cautiously, and halted amidst some trees, whence he had a view of the mill-door.
He was waiting for the boy, David Ripper.

Fully convinced by the lad's manner at the inquest that he had not told all he knew, but was keeping something back in fear, Mr.Pike, for reasons of his own, resolved to come at it if he could.

He knew that the boy would be at work later than usual that night, having been hindered in the afternoon.
Imagine yourself standing with your back to the river, reader, and take a view of the premises as they face you.

The cottage is a square building, and has four good rooms on the ground floor.

The miller's thrifty wife generally locked all these rooms up if she went out, and carried the keys away in her pocket.