It is my duty to warn you that proceedings will be taken against any one concealing or harboring him." Barrington rose up very stiffly, with a little gray tinge in his face, but words seemed to fail him, and Dane laid his hand on the corporal's shoulder.
"Then," he said grimly, "don't exceed it.

If you believe he's here, we will give you every opportunity of finding him." Payne called to a comrade outside, who was, as it happened, new to the force, and they spent at least ten minutes questioning the servants and going up and down the house.

Then as they glanced into the general room again, the trooper looked deprecatingly at his officer.
"I fancied I heard somebody riding by the bluff just before we reached the house," he said.
Payne wheeled round with a flash in his eyes.

"Then you have lost us our man.

Out with you, and tell Jackson to try the bluff for a trail." They had gone in another moment, and Winston still sat at the foot of the table and Barrington at the head, while the rest of the company were scattered, some wonderingly silent, though others talked in whispers, about the room.