After riding for three hours, they stopped at a lonely farm house, at which Mr.
Jervoise and his friends had held their meeting on the previous day.

Here they changed their clothes for others that had been sent for their use from Lancaster.

Mr.Jervoise was attired as a small trader, and the lads in garb suitable to boys in the same rank of life.

They still, however, retained their swords, and the pistols in their holsters.
Three miles farther they met their host, as arranged, at some crossroads, and rode on until within three miles of Lancaster.

They then dismounted, placed their pistols in their belts, and handed their horses to the two men, who would take them back to the hut in the hills, where they would remain until required.
It was two o'clock in the morning when they entered Lancaster and, going up to a small house, standing in a garden in the outskirts of the town, Mr.Jervoise gave three low knocks in quick succession.
The door was opened almost immediately.