"Haste, Osric, haste," said the youthful outlaw, "or thou wilt be taken."
They dashed from the hut.
"This way," said Ulric.
And they crossed the stream in the opposite direction to the advancing sounds.
"I lay hid in the forest and heard them say they would seek thee in thine old home, as they passed my lurking-place."
"Now, away."
"But they may hurt Judith. Nay, Brian has not yet returned, cannot yet have come back, and without his orders they would not dare. He forbade them once before even to touch the cottage."
They pressed onward through the woods.
"Whither do we go?" said Osric, who had allowed his young preserver to lead.
"To our haunt in the swamp."