And some of these have set the Excisemen on _my_ track, with tales of how it is I that know where you lie hid, and bring you meat and drink.

So it is that I cannot stir abroad now, no, not even to the church o' Sundays, without having some rogue lurking at my heels to watch my movements.

And that is why I chose such a night to come hither, knowing these knaves like dry skins, but never thinking that the wind would blow like this.

I am come to tell Block that 'tis not safe for me to be so much in Purbeck, and that I dare no longer bring food or what not, or these man-hounds will scent you out.

Your leg is sound again, and 'tis best to be flitting while you may, and there's the _Eperon d'Or,_ and Chauvelais to give you welcome on the other side.' I told him how Elzevir was gone this very night to Poole to settle with the _Bonaventure_, when she should come to take us off; and at that Ratsey seemed pleased.