LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR

["''TIS YOUR DOING,' SPLUTTERED NOAKES, SHAKING THE SOOT FROM HIS CLOTHES"] (see p. 38). Frontispiece

["THERE WAS A RATTLING SOUND AND NOAKES WAS HALF OBLITERATED"]

["ITS RIDERS WERE FLUNG INTO THE HEDGE"]

["TEMPLETON GRIPPED THE UNHAPPY MAN BY THE COLLAR, AND HAULED HIM UP"]

["'I'VE COTCHED 'EE,' HE CRIED"]

["'HERE I BE, AND HERE I BIDE,' SAID EVES, BRANDISHING THE POKER"]

["THEY TRIPPED OVER THE WIRE AND SPRAWLED AT FULL LENGTH"]

["'YES,' CUT IN EVES, WHO HAD COME OUT INTO THE ROAD. 'IF I WERE YOU, YOUNG FELLER, I'D JOLLY WELL CHUCK HIM INTO THE HORSE-POND'"]