"They had got me so firmly in their clutches, that I thought my chances were at an end.
"How are you, Charlie?
I am right glad to see you, safe and sound, for they had managed to include you in their pretended plot, and, for aught I knew, you had been all this time lying in a cell next mine in Lancaster Castle.
"But who are the good fellows who helped you ?" Mr.Jervoise briefly gave an account of the affair.
"They are only keeping up a sham pursuit of the soldiers, so as to send them well on their way.

I told them not to overtake them, as there was no occasion for any further bloodshed, when you were once out of their hands.

By tomorrow morning they will all be at work on their farms again, and, if they keep their own counsel, need not fear." Suddenly Sir Marmaduke reined in his horse.
"We are riding south," he said.
"Certainly we are," Mr.Jervoise said.

"Why not?
That is our only chance of safety.

They will, in the first place, suspect us of having doubled back to the hills, and will search every farmhouse and cottage.