He thought her eyes questioned him and he answered them: "Why have I from the first known some big thing waited him?—it was somehow told me. Why beware?—I am somehow warned."
She turned and began to go away. Come out of the fluttering, she could not at once recall what had passed between her and this little man.
Japhra put a quick hand on her arm: "Mistress, beware lest thou betrayest him!"
She remembered that.
CHAPTER VIII
A COLD 'UN FOR EGBERT HUNT. ROUGH 'UNS FOR PERCIVAL
I
Ima's nursing, as that doctor had said, brought Percival back from where he had been driven beyond the mark by stress of events and put him firmly afoot along the road of convalescence. Only one circumstance arose to distress those days of his returning strength—the news of Egbert Hunt.
The assizes at Salisbury followed quick on the capture of the fugitive—run to earth in a wood by the Blue Boys and the tough boys and brought back like some wild creature trapped—soaked, soiled, bruised, faint, furious, terrified and struggling, for prompt committal by the magistrate.