Braystone
Early that same morning, another rider cantered across the frosted moor. About the same time as Stickles entered Smitty’s cottage, Morgan arrived home. His family were overjoyed to see him safe and sound, but the happiness was short-lived when he told them that he would have to return to the Mede, that very same afternoon. “The Constable feels that Ben is staying at the Smitty place. It’s just a hunch of his. Anyway, we are going to arrest him as soon as it becomes dark. If we travel through the day, and he is there, he could see us coming, and we don’t want that.”
After a noonday meal, Morgan departed once again, amidst the cries of “do be careful”, from his sister and mother His father said little, but he knew he was thinking the same thing. Once on the moorland track, his th
