"The lad's fair done out," she said, glancing at his haggard face.

It was later than noon when he awoke.
Alas! what then was lost forever! What was gone beyond recall! Starting up in annoyance at the waste of time, he set off afresh, and, calling at the inn as he passed by, he learned to his great vexation that if he had come on there when, at sunrise, he went into the cottage a hundred yards away, he must have been within easy reach of Sim and Ralph.

The coach, nevertheless, had not yet got to this stage, and that fact partially reconciled Robbie to the delay.
He had little doubt which path to take when he reached the angle of the roads at the corner of the churchyard.

If Ralph had taken the road leading to Gaskarth he might be safe, but if he had taken the road leading to Carlisle he must be in danger.

Therefore Robbie determined to follow the latter.
He made no further inquiries until he had walked through the market town of Penrith, and had come out on the turnpike to the north of it.
Then he asked the passers-by who seemed to come some distance if they had encountered two such men as he was in search of.