retorted Matcham . `` Shoot ! '' Dick lowered his weapon in some confusion . `` See here , '' he said . `` Y ' have done me ill enough . Go , then . Go your way in fair wise ; or , whether I will or not , I must even drive you to it . '' `` Well , '' said Matcham , doggedly , `` y ' are the stronger . Do your worst . I shall not leave to follow thee , Dick , unless thou makest me , '' he added . Dick was almost beside himself . It went against his heart to beat a creature so defenceless ; and , for the life of him , he knew no other way to rid himself of this unwelcome and , as he began to think , perhaps untrue companion . `` Y ' are mad , I think , '' he cried . `` Fool-fellow , I am hasting to your foes ; as fast as foot can carry me , go I thither . '' `` I care not , Dick , '' replied the lad . `` If y ' are bound to die , Dick , I 'll die too . I would liever go with you to prison than to go free without you . '' `` Well , '' returned the other , `` I may stand no longer prating . Follow me , if ye must ; but if ye play me false , it shall but little advance you , mark ye that . Shalt have a quarrel in thine inwards , boy . ''
So saying , XXXXX took once more to his heels , keeping in the margin of the thicket and looking briskly about him as he went .
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