Jeffreys, on hearing Freddy mutter "Father," looked round curiously, to get a view of the father of his little friends.
Mr Rosher recognised Trimble with a nod.
"I've coom, you see, lad.

I want to have a look at this murderer fellow thee was talking about.

Where is he ?" It was a thunderclap with a vengeance! Only two persons in the room guessed all it meant.
"Coom, trot him out, man," repeated the farmer, noticing the hesitation in Jonah's scared face.

"Is that the chap yonder thee was telling me of ?" added he, pointing to Jeffreys.
It was all up with Galloway House, and Jonah knew it.
"Yes," said he.
Jeffrey's face became livid as he sprang to his feet.
"Stay where thou art," said the brawny farmer, motioning him back.
"Let's have a look at thee.

So thee's a manslayer?
Thou looks it." A terrible pause followed--the pause of a man who struggles for words that will not come.
He looked terrible indeed; with heaving chest and bloodless lips, and eyes like the eyes of a hunted wolf.