Excerpt from The Refugee: The Strange Story of Nether HallA quick word passed between the boys. John vouched he had caught a glimpse of the heel of a' pistol-butt, and Anthony was even ready to swear that he had seen the stain of blood on the stranger's hands. Whereupon, off they went in his tracks, holding back under cover of the willows that fringe the banks of the Stour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.