Premise: The air is shrewd , and I would not ye took cold upon these scratches . ''<br>He made a sign with his hand ; it was passed down the nave by obsequious servants , who waited there upon his smallest gesture .<br>Instantly , without the church , a tucket sounded shrill , and through the open portal archers and men-at-arms , uniformly arrayed in the colours and wearing the badge of Lord Risingham , began to file into the church , took Dick and Lawless from those who still detained them , and , closing their files about the prisoners , marched forth again and disappeared .
Hypothesis: The men who entered the church were soldiers