"Come with me," I said.
"Where, sur?" he asked tremblingly.
"Show me the nearest way to the high-road," I said. "If you deceive me, I'll kill you. I want to avoid the lodge gates too."
He obeyed me without a word. A few minutes later I was on a cart-track which led in the direction of Endellion village.
"Laive me go back, sur," pleaded the man. "I waan't tell nothin', and they may vind out that I've left the courtyard. Hark, they have vound out!"
I heard men shouting as he spoke.
"Laive me go back, sur," he continued to plead; "this trail do laid to the high-road, you caan't go wrong."
I let him go, for he could be of no further use to me; then I gave Chestnut rein, and a few minutes later was safe on the high-road.