Better suffer a little wrong, and seem to know nothing of it, than risk a quarrel with those who, having once put themselves out of the shelter of the laws, take every opportunity of putting them at defiance.

And what if you were to push the matter, where will the sheriff or the military find us?
In a week and the judge will arrive, and the court will be in session.

For that week we shall be out of the way.

Nobody shall know--nobody can find us.

This day's work will most probably give us all a great itch for travel." Munro had, in truth, made out a very plain case; and his representations, in the main, were all correct.