Howbeit , and to be quit of your importunity , I will once more humour you . Go , then , together ; but go warily , and get swiftly out of Shoreby town . For this Sir Daniel -LRB- whom may the saints confound ! -RRB- thirsteth most greedily to have your blood . '' `` My lord , I do now offer you in words my gratitude , trusting at some brief date to pay you some of it in service , '' replied Dick , as he turned from the apartment . CHAPTER VI -- ARBLASTER AGAIN When Dick and Lawless were suffered to steal , by a back way , out of the house where Lord Risingham held his garrison , the evening had already come . They paused in shelter of the garden wall to consult on their best course . The danger was extreme . 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 XXXXX when , as they were passing close before an alehouse , the door suddenly opened and let out a gush of light upon their fleeting figures .
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