He will try to keep an eye upon both, being a man full of cunning himself.

I reckon that he will send two men after you, Tom, and one after me.

I shall, after a while, pause, lie in wait, and kill that man.

Then I shall flee to the valley, get a guide who can show me the other pass, and make such way from the seat of peril that I shall be well-nigh across the frontier before Sir James knows that one of his quarry has escaped him.
"As for you, my boy, you may like enough escape with a sound skin, unless Montacute himself pursues, making three to one--for one cannot trust these peasants to show fight.

But be the issue what it may, that is the plan I have thought out which gives the best chance of winning through.