Suddenly he stood still, and asked Riderhood point-blank if he knew where she was? Clearly, he did not know. He asked Riderhood if he would be willing, in case any intelligence of her, or of Wrayburn as seeking her or associating with her, should fall in his way, to communicate it if it were paid for? He would be very willing indeed. He was “agin ’em both,” he said with an oath, and for why? “Cause they had both stood betwixt him and his getting his living by the sweat of his brow.

“It will not be long then,” said Bradley Headstone, after some more discourse to this effect, “before we see one another again. Here is the country road, and here is the day. Both have come upon me by surprise.”

“But, t’otherest Governor,” urged Mr. Riderhood, “I don’t know where to find you.”

“It is of no consequence. I know where to find you, and I’ll come to your lock.”