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Garth, growling again.
"And if he took it afterwards, what matter?" said Constable Jonathan,
with an expression of contempt. "Push on, there. Here we're at the
top. Is it down now? What's that below? A house, truly--a house at
last. Who's that running from it? We must be near our trysting place.
Is that our man? Come, if we are to do this thing, let us do it."
"It's the fellow Ray, to a certainty," said the little man, pricking
his horse into a canter as soon as he reached the first fields of
Ennerdale.
In a few minutes the three men had drawn up at the cottage on the
breast of Brandreth where Sim had asked for a drink.
"Mistress! Hegh! hegh! Who was the man that left you just now?"
"I dunnet know wha't war--some feckless body, I'm afeart. He was a'
wizzent and savvorless. He begged ma a drink o' milk, but lang ere a
cud cum tul him he was gane his gate like yan dazt-like."
"Who could this be? It's not our man clearly. Who could it be,
blacksmith?"
The gentleman addressed had turned alternately white and red at the
woman's description.


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