Tom Riley's horse was found at the blacksmith's shop at the cross-roads, and the blacksmith said that he had been left there to have a shoe put on, and that the man who had ridden him had gone on over the fields toward a house on the edge of the woods, about a mile away.
So Tony and his men rode up to within a half-mile of the house, and then they dismounted, tied their horses, and proceeded on foot.

They kept, as far as possible, under cover of the tall weeds and bushes, and hurried along silently and in single file, Tony in the lead.

Thus they soon reached the house, when they quietly surrounded it.
But George Mason played them a pretty trick..