At last the lawyer laid down the dead man in his blood upon the road , and got to his own feet with a kind of stagger . I believe it was his movement that brought me to my senses ; for he had no sooner done so than I began to scramble up the hill , crying out , `` The murderer ! the murderer ! '' So little a time had elapsed , that when I got to the top of the first steepness , and could see some part of the open mountain , the murderer was still moving away at no great distance . He was a big man , in a black coat , with metal buttons , and carried a long fowling-piece . `` Here ! '' I cried . `` I see him ! '' At that the murderer gave a little , quick look over his shoulder , and began to run . The next moment he was lost in a fringe of birches ; then he came out again on the upper side , where I could see him climbing like a jackanapes , for that part was again very steep ; and then he dipped behind a shoulder , and I saw him no more . All this time I had been running on my side , and had got a good way up , when a voice cried upon me to stand . I was at the edge of the upper wood , and so now , when I halted and looked back , I saw all the open part of the hill below me . The lawyer and the sheriff 's officer were standing just above the road , crying and waving on me to come back ; and on their left , the red-coats , musket in hand , were beginning to struggle singly out of the lower wood . `` Why should I come back ? '' I cried . `` Come you on ! '' `` Ten pounds if ye take that lad ! '' cried the lawyer . `` He 's an accomplice . He was posted here to hold us in talk . ''
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