"I would ask you to send over a man, with the horse I rode on and another, at daybreak.

Let him put them into the coach and drive back to Hadleigh, taking with him the bodies of the lackey and coachman.

With him I will send a note to my lord, asking that no stir be made in the matter.

We need not set the world talking as to my visit to his house; but lest any magistrate stir in the matter, I will leave a letter for him, saying that the coach in which I travelled was attacked by highwaymen, and that two of them, as well as the two servants, were killed, and that no further inquisition need be made into the matter.

You may be sure that the other side will say naught, and they will likely enough go back and carry off their dead tonight, and bury them quietly." "Very well, sir," Colonel Holliday said.