Of course the murderer should be taken, and I have reasons to desire that this object too should be attained.

It is on this business, then, that you are to go.

You must be the officer to take him." "But where is he?
if within reach, you know there is no difficulty." "Hear me; there is difficulty though he is within reach.

He is one of the men whom you found with the old farmer you would otherwise have attacked last night.

There is difficulty, for he will fight like a wild beast, and stick to his ground like a rattlesnake; and, supported by the old fellow whom you found him with, he will be able to resist almost any force which you could muster on the emergency.