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John Falconer of Badger Hill was too shrewd a gentleman to betray himself or his affairs to the lurkers whom John Rich had left in the woods to watch him. Falconer made no stir about the place, left his men working in the fields, and kept his own counsel.
"If the dogs have been busy about here," he said to himself, "we will give them no cause to hunt us. There are other parts of the Forest where men can muster and march to help Mellis Dale."