They have got five or six field hands, and are said to be well off.

We have no doubt they have got a still somewhere in the swamps, but we have never been able to find it.

I will send a man off to-morrow to make inquiries whether any stranger has arrived there lately.

Of course, Pearson will not have kept that name, and he will not have appeared as John Porter, for he would be arrested on a fresh warrant at once for his share in that former business.

I think, Captain Wingfield, you had better register at the hotel here under some other name.