The rest, with the two ladies and the female servants, at once took their places, and were taken across before any sound betokened the arrival of the enemy at the Hall.
"I sincerely hope, Mrs.Conyers," Captain Davenant said, as they landed, "that Mr.Conyers may accompany the first body of troops who arrive, for if not, I fear they will set fire to the Hall.

They must have lost considerably over fifty men, and in their rage at finding no one on whom to wreak their vengeance, they will make no inquiry as to whom the house belongs.

Indeed, they will find no one there to ask.

The servants of the house had already fled, and I sent my boy's servant, Larry, round to the stables to tell the men there to ride away with the horses.

They will accompany fifteen of my men, who mounted as many of the horses we captured, and are driving the rest to a ford some miles away.