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. The only fear I have is,
that being well-mounted, he will not keep with the company, but as they
must needs travel slowly, he will go on and leave them."
"Should it not rather be a source of satisfaction than otherwise--will
it not put him more completely at our disposal?"
"No; for having so much the start of you, and a good animal, he will
soon leave all pursuit behind him.
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