If one of Sir Daniel 's men caught sight of them and raised the view-hallo , they would be run down and butchered instantly . And not only was the town of Shoreby a mere net of peril for their lives , but to make for the open country was to run the risk of the patrols . A little way off , upon some open ground , they spied a windmill standing ; and hard by that , a very large granary with open doors . `` How if we lay there until the night fall ? '' Dick proposed . And Lawless having no better suggestion to offer , they made a straight push for the granary at a run , and concealed themselves behind the door among some straw . The daylight rapidly departed ; and presently the moon was silvering the frozen snow . Now or never was their opportunity to gain the Goat and Bagpipes unobserved and change their tell-tale garments . Yet even then it was advisable to go round by the outskirts , and not run the gauntlet of the market-place , where , in the concourse of people , they stood the more imminent peril to be recognised and slain . This course was a long one . It took them not far from the house by the beach , now lying dark and silent , and brought them forth at last by the margin of the harbour . Many of the ships , as they could see by the clear moonshine , had weighed anchor , and , profiting by the calm sky , proceeded for more distant parts ; answerably to this , the rude alehouses along the beach -LRB- although in defiance of the curfew law , they still shone with fire and candle -RRB- were no longer thronged with customers , and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs . Hastily , half-running , with their monkish raiment kilted to the knee , they plunged through the deep snow and threaded the labyrinth of marine lumber ; and they were already more than half way round the harbour when , as they were passing close before an alehouse , the door suddenly opened and let out a gush of light upon their fleeting figures . Instantly they stopped , and made believe to be engaged in earnest conversation . Three men , one after another , came out of the ale-house , and the last closed the door behind him . All three were unsteady upon their feet , as if they had passed the day in deep potations , and they now stood wavering in the moonlight , like men who knew not what they would be after . The tallest of the three was talking in a loud , lamentable voice . `` Seven pieces of as good Gascony as ever a tapster broached , '' he was saying , `` the best ship out o ' the port o ' Dartmouth , a Virgin Mary parcel-gilt , thirteen pounds of good gold money -- '' `` I have bad losses , too , '' interrupted one of the others . `` I have had losses of mine own , gossip Arblaster . I was robbed at Martinmas of five shillings and a leather wallet well worth ninepence farthing . ''
XXXXX 's heart smote him at what he heard .
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