"This is the second time that accursed police fellow has turned up, and put a spoke in our wheel.

Why, it was not more than half an hour after the first shot was fired before they was down upon us; there must have been pretty nigh twenty of them.

How could they have got such a lot of men as that together, if they hadn't known that we were coming?
It beats me altogether." "So it does me!" was the general exclamation.
"They seemed regularly to jump out of the ground, just when all was going pleasant.

Never knew such a bit of luck--that is, if it was luck, and not done o' purpose--and yet, I don't see as they could have known, possible, as we was going there.

Why, we didn't know ourselves till yesterday, not what day it was to be; and except ourselves, and that black fellow, no one could have known it." "Well, it's certain none of us blabbed; and I don't see as how he could have told anyone." "Not exactly," the leader said, "considering he's been shut up here, ever since we have been away; besides, I don't believe he knew anything about it.