"It's long in the coming sometimes, it is."
"It seems long, truly." The dalesman had caught Sim's drift, and with
his old trick of manner, more expressive than his words, he had put
his hand on Sim's arm.
"And now there is but one chance that has made it quite worth the
while that we should have talked frankly on the subject, you and I,
and that is the chance that others may come to do what Wilson tried to
do. The authorities who issued this warrant will hardly forget that
they issued it. There was a stranger here the day after the inquest. I
think I know what he was."
Sim shuddered perceptibly.
"He went away then, but we'll see him once more, depend upon it."
"Is it true, as Wilson said, that Oliver's men are like to be taken?"
"There's a spy in every village, so they say, and blank warrants, duly
signed, in every sheriff's court, ready to be filled in with any name
that malice may suggest. These men mean that Puritanism shall be
rooted out of England. We cannot be too well prepared."
"I wish I could save you, Ralph; leastways, I wish it were myself
instead, I do.
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