Go your way in fair wise ; or , whether I will or not , I must even drive you to it . '' `` Well , '' said Matcham , doggedly , `` y ' are the stronger . Do your worst . I shall not leave to follow thee , Dick , unless thou makest me , '' he added . Dick was almost beside himself . It went against his heart to beat a creature so defenceless ; and , for the life of him , he knew no other way to rid himself of this unwelcome and , as he began to think , perhaps untrue companion . `` Y ' are mad , I think , '' he cried . `` Fool-fellow , I am hasting to your foes ; as fast as foot can carry me , go I thither . '' `` I care not , Dick , '' replied the lad . `` If y ' are bound to die , Dick , I 'll die too . I would liever go with you to prison than to go free without you . '' `` Well , '' returned the other , `` I may stand no longer prating . Follow me , if ye must ; but if ye play me false , it shall but little advance you , mark ye that . Shalt have a quarrel in thine inwards , boy . '' So saying , Dick took once more to his heels , keeping in the margin of the thicket and looking briskly about him as he went . At a good pace he rattled out of the dell , and came again into the more open quarters of the wood . To the left a little eminence appeared , spotted with golden gorse , and crowned with a black tuft of firs . `` I shall see from there , '' he thought , and struck for it across a heathy clearing . He had gone but a few yards , when Matcham touched him on the arm , and pointed . To the eastward of the summit there was a dip , and , as it were , a valley passing to the other side ; the heath was not yet out ; all the ground was rusty , like an unscoured buckler , and dotted sparingly with yews ; and there , one following another , Dick saw half a score green jerkins mounting the ascent , and marching at their head , conspicuous by his boar-spear , Ellis Duckworth in person .
One after another gained the top , showed for a moment against the sky , and then dipped upon the further side , until the last was XXXXX .
Go came care dotted drive following gone marching saying thought