I wish I could draw them--I would not trust to the pen.
The light of the watch-tower at Dusseldorf was visible as soon as they cleared the wood, and cheered Gerard.

When, after an hour's march, the black outline of the tower itself and other buildings stood out clear to the eye, their companion halted and said gloomily, "You may as well slay me out of hand as take me any nearer the gates of Dusseldorf town." On this being communicated to Denys, he said at once, "Let him go then, for in sooth his neck will be in jeopardy if he wends much further with us." Gerard acquiesced as a matter of course.

His horror of a criminal did not in the least dispose him to active co-operation with the law.
But the fact is, that at this epoch no private citizen in any part of Europe ever meddled with criminals but in self-defence, except, by-the-by, in England, which, behind other nations in some things, was centuries before them all in this.
The man's personal liberty being restored, he asked for his axe.

It was given him.

To the friends' surprise he still lingered.