`` Sanctuary ! Ho , there , my fathers ! They would drag me from the church ! '' `` From the church thou hast defiled with murder , boy , '' added a tall man , magnificently dressed . `` On what probation ? '' cried Dick . `` They do accuse me , indeed , of some complicity , but have not proved one tittle . I was , in truth , a suitor for this damsel 's hand ; and she , I will be bold to say it , repaid my suit with favour . But what then ? To love a maid is no offence , I trow -- nay , nor to gain her love . In all else , I stand here free from guiltiness . '' There was a murmur of approval among the bystanders , so boldly Dick declared his innocence ; but at the same time a throng of accusers arose upon the other side , crying how he had been found last night in Sir Daniel 's house , how he wore a sacrilegious disguise ; and in the midst of the babel , Sir Oliver indicated Lawless , both by voice and gesture , as accomplice to the fact . He , in his turn , was dragged from his seat and set beside his leader . The feelings of the crowd rose high on either side , and while some dragged the prisoners to and fro to favour their escape , others cursed and struck them with their fists . Dick 's ears rang and his brain swam dizzily , like a man struggling in the eddies of a furious river . But the tall man who had already answered Dick , by a prodigious exercise of voice restored silence and order in the mob . `` Search them , '' he said , `` for arms . We may so judge of their intentions . '' Upon Dick they found no weapon but his poniard , and this told in his favour , until one man officiously drew it from its sheath , and found it still uncleansed of the blood of Rutter . At this there was a great shout among Sir Daniel 's followers , which the tall man suppressed by a gesture and an imperious glance .
But when it came to the turn of XXXXX , there was found under his gown a sheaf of arrows identical with those that had been shot .
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