"If not, let me see him and remonstrate."
"Anyway, I'll not bear this state of misery any longer; I'll find freedom somehow!" cried Lambert, with an air of determination.
[CHAPTER XI.]
PAID IN FULL.
"I feel like myself," said Lambert to his host, a few days after the encounter above recorded. "I'll go down to Denham to-morrow, and get my interview with Deering over."
"I am not at all sure you are equal to it, Lambert; you are feverish and excited. Why not wait till he comes up to town?"
"Because I'd feel safer in the country. That fellow is just traitor enough to keep me in talk while he sent for a constable, and made a charge of murder against me. Constables are not so near at hand in the country."
"I think you are mistaken; I don't fancy Deering will cut off his nose to spite his face."
"It's hard to tell. Anyhow I'll try him. I suppose there is some village or town near where a man could put up?"
"There is a village at Denham, I believe, but the railway-station is five or six miles off, I am told, at a town called Earlshall, where no doubt you will find accommodation. I wish you would leave the matter in my hands, Lambert."