`` Lads , '' he said , `` ye know your places . Let not one man 's soul escape you . Appleyard was a whet before a meal ; but now we go to table . I have three men whom I will bitterly avenge -- Harry Shelton , Simon Malmesbury , and '' -- striking his broad bosom -- `` and Ellis Duckworth , by the mass ! '' Another man came , red with hurry , through the thorns . '' 'T is not Sir Daniel ! '' he panted . `` They are but seven . Is the arrow gone ? '' `` It struck but now , '' replied Ellis . `` A murrain ! '' cried the messenger . `` Methought I heard it whistle . And I go dinnerless ! '' In the space of a minute , some running , some walking sharply , according as their stations were nearer or farther away , the men of the Black Arrow had all disappeared from the neighbourhood of the ruined house ; and the caldron , and the fire , which was now burning low , and the dead deer 's carcase on the hawthorn , remained alone to testify they had been there . CHAPTER V -- `` BLOODY AS THE HUNTER '' The lads lay quiet till the last footstep had melted on the wind . Then they arose , and with many an ache , for they were weary with constraint , clambered through the ruins , and recrossed the ditch upon the rafter . Matcham had picked up the windac and went first , Dick following stiffly , with his cross-bow on his arm . `` And now , '' said Matcham , `` forth to Holywood . '' `` To Holywood ! ''
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