Stockdale, who was no smuggler at all, felt more anxiety than the worst of them, and went about his studies with a heavy heart, coming frequently to the door to ask Lizzy some question or other on the consequences to her of the tubs being found.
'The consequences,' she said quietly, 'are simply that I shall lose 'em.
As I have none in the house or garden, they can't touch me personally.' 'But you have some in the orchard ?' 'Owlett rents that of me, and he lends it to others.

So it will be hard to say who put any tubs there if they should be found.' There was never such a tremendous sniffing known as that which took place in Nether-Moynton parish and its vicinity this day.

All was done methodically, and mostly on hands and knees.

At different hours of the day they had different plans.

From daybreak to breakfast-time the officers used their sense of smell in a direct and straightforward manner only, pausing nowhere but at such places as the tubs might be supposed to be secreted in at that very moment, pending their removal on the following night.