own father � is this axe your n brother yes it s mine said in the same sullen manner as before it might have hurt you if you liad come in its way or twice last night put it down might have hurt me said mr still keeping it in his hand and feeling the edge tin air of abstraction might have hurt me and me myself all the time to the best advantage here s a world and you re not a going to ask me to take a sup out of that ere eh passed it towards him as he raised it to his lips jumped up and them to be silent looked e out what s the matter said glancing at and dropping the but still holding the axe in his hand hush he answered softly what do i see glittering behind the hedge what cried the raising his voice to its highest pitch and laying hold of him and not � not soldiers surely that moment the shed was filled with armed men and a body of horse galloping into the field drew up before it there said who remained untouched among them when they had seized their prisoners it s them two young ones gentlemen that the puts a price on this other s an escaped � i m sorry for it brother he added in a tone of resignation addressing himself to but you ve brought it on yourself you forced me to do it you t respect the principles you know you went and the of i had sooner have given away a trifle in than done this t would upon my soul � if you u keep fast hold on em gentlemen i think i can make a shift to tie em better than you can but this operation was postponed for a few moments by a new occurrence the blind man whose ears were quicker than most people s sight had been alarmed before by a in the bushes imder cover of which the soldiers had advanced he retreated instantly � had hidden somewhere for a minute � and probably in his confusion th point at which he had emerged was now seen running across the open an officer cried directly that lie liad helped to plunder a house last night he was loudly called on to surrender he ran the harder and in a few seconds would have been out of gun shot the word was given and the men fired there was a breathless pause and a profound silence during which all eyes were fixed upon him he had been seen to start at the discharge as if the report had frightened him but he neither stopped nor his pace in the least and ran on full for yards further then without one or or sign of or quivering of any limb he dropped some of them hurried up to where he lay � the with them everything had passed so quickly that the smoke was not yet scattered but curled slowly off in a little which seemed like the dead man s spirit moving solemnly away there were a few drops of blood upon the grass � more when they turned him over � that was all look here look here said the stooping one knee beside the body and gazing up with a face at the officer and men here s a pretty sight stand out of the way replied the officer see what he had about the man turned his pockets out upon the grass and counted besides some foreign and two rings five guineas in gold these were up in a handkerchief and carried away the body remained there for the present but six men and the were left to take it to the nearest public house now then if you re going said the clapping on the back and pointing after the officer who was walking towards the shed to which mr only don t talk to me and then repeated what he had said before namely here s a pretty sight it s not one that you care for much i should think observed the coolly why who said mr rising should care for it if i don t oh i didn t know you was so tender hearted said the that s all tender hearted echoed tender hearted look at this man do you call this do you see him shot through and through instead of being worked off like a if i know which to side with you re as bad as the other what s to become of the country if the military power s to go a the in this way where s this poor fellow s rights as a citizen that he didn t have me in his last moments i was here i was i was ready these are nice times brother to have the dead crying out against in this way and sleep comfortably in our beds nice whether he derived any material consolation from binding the prisoners is most probably he did at all events his being summoned to that work diverted him for the time from these painful reflections and gave his thoughts a more congenial occupation they were not all three carried off together but in two parties and his father going by one road in the centre of a body of foot and fast bound upon a horse and strongly guarded by a troop of cavalry being taken by another they had no for the least communication in the short interval which preceded their departure being kept strictly apart only observed that walked with a drooping head among his guard and without raising his eyes that he tried to wave his hand when he passed for himself he up his courage as he rode along with the assurance that the mob would force his jail wherever it might be and set him 