If I were to let you have your way you'd
bring the whole country down upon us. There will be time enough when we
see a reason for it to tie up this young man's tongue."
"I see--I see!--you are ever thus--ever risking our chance upon
contingencies when you might build strongly upon certainties. You are
perpetually trying the strength of the rope, when a like trouble would
render it a sure hold-fast. Rather than have the possibility of this
thing being blabbed, I would--"
"Hush--hark!" said Munro, placing his hand upon the arm of his
companion, and drawing him deeper into the copse, at the moment that
Forrester, who had just left the chamber of Ralph, emerged from the
tavern into the open air. The outlaw had not placed himself within the
shadow of the trees in time sufficient to escape the searching gaze of
the woodman, who, seeing the movement and only seeing one person, leaped
nimbly forward with a light footstep, speaking thus as he approached:
"Hello! there--who's that--the pedler, sure.
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