I can lend you a rifle as well as a horse, if you will accept them." Vincent accepted the offer with thanks.

The next morning at daylight he went round to the sheriff's house, where six determined-looking men, belonging to the town or neighboring farms, were assembled.

Slinging the rifle that the sheriff handed him across his back, Vincent at once mounted, and the party set off at a brisk trot.
"My man came back half an hour ago," the sheriff said to Vincent as they rode along.

"He found out that a man answering to your description arrived with another at Porter's about a fortnight ago, and is staying there still.

Whether they brought a negress with them or not no one seems to have noticed.