Now, Roger, get half a dozen sticks and lay across the top." While Roger was away getting the sticks, Oswald helped the girls over the wall, for no entrance had been left.
"Now, Janet, give me those two wet smocks; I see that you have brought them with you." "What do you want them for, Oswald ?" "I want them for the roof, Janet.

It is beginning to freeze hard, and it is of no use having walls, if you have not a roof." "Won't you take my cloak, instead ?" "Certainly not, Janet, you will want your cloak for a covering.

Don't be silly, but hand them over." By this time, Roger had returned with the sticks.

They were laid across the top, and the girls' smocks spread over them.
"Now, go to sleep," Oswald said; "we must be on foot, an hour before dawn." Oswald then started down the hill for Parton.

When he got within a mile of the town, he could see lights moving about on the road; and guessed that the Bairds had got torches, and were making sure that the fugitives had not hidden themselves anywhere close to the road; for they must have felt certain that they could not have reached the town, before being overtaken.