Stand off ! '' `` Will follow an I please , '' said Matcham . `` This wood is free to me . '' `` Stand back , by ' r Lady ! '' returned Dick , raising his bow . `` Ah , y ' are a brave boy ! '' 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 , XXXXX , '' replied the lad .
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