I did not always see men following, but sometimes I did, and it seemed always as though there were four of them together.

Once I heard a laugh that I seemed to remember, and I felt a qualm of fear, I scarce knew why." "You spoke no word to your father ?" "No; I thought myself the victim of some foolish fear, and I wanted not to trouble him.

He bade me goodbye at the gate, and saw me run up to the house and let myself in.

I went up straight to my window to wave my hand to him as was my wont, and just at that moment four men lounged by arm-in-arm with swaggering mien." "And you think it was those same men ?" "I was almost sure of it, and hastily withdrew, glad that they did not follow my father down the hill, but walked slowly on in the opposite direction, and then turned and paced slowly back two or three times.

For though I did not show myself, I peeped out and watched to see what they did." Tom's face was very black.