'I'll have 'em up for this! Why don't they come and help us?
There's not a man about the place but the Methodist parson, and he's an old woman.

I demand assistance in the king's name!' 'We must find the jineral public afore we can demand that,' said his lieutenant.
'Well, well, we shall do better without 'em,' said Latimer, who changed his moods at a moment's notice.

'But there's great cause of suspicion in this silence and this keeping out of sight, and I'll bear it in mind.

Now we will go across to Owlett's orchard, and see what we can find there.' Stockdale, who heard this discussion from the garden-gate, over which he had been leaning, was rather alarmed, and thought it a mistake of the villagers to keep so completely out of the way.

He himself, like the excisemen, had been wondering for the last half-hour what could have become of them.