I don't know if they have come yet.

As I told you, we go to Lulstead Cove to-night, and it is two miles further than Ringsworth.' It turned out that the men had already come; for while she spoke two or three dozen heads broke the line of the slope, and a company of them at once descended from the bushes where they had been lying in wait.

These carriers were men whom Lizzy and other proprietors regularly employed to bring the tubs from the boat to a hiding-place inland.

They were all young fellows of Nether-Moynton, Chaldon, and the neighbourhood, quiet and inoffensive persons, who simply engaged to carry the cargo for Lizzy and her cousin Owlett, as they would have engaged in any other labour for which they were fairly well paid.
At a word from her they closed in together.

'You had better take it now,' she said to them; and handed to each a packet.