CHAPTER TWENTY SIX. 

MAD HACO STARTLED AT LAST. 

That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove, with his coat-skirts, his cravat-ends, and his hair streaming in the breeze. 

An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction. 

It was dark when Gildart entered the village, and all the inhabitants were in their dwellings, so that he reached Gaff's cottage unperceived. 

The village was a primitive one. Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages, probably because there was nothing worth stealing within them. Gildart lifted the latch and entered. A fire, nearly out, with a large piece of coal on it, burned in the grate. The flicker of this was sufficient to illuminate the boudoir faintly. 

Having surveyed the apartment, examined the closet, and looked under the bed, he went out, and, going to the back of the cottage, found the band waiting in some anxiety. 

"Now, lads, come this way," said Gildart; "and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage. He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion. If you stir, and he finds you out, he won't spare you." 

"But you promise to come to the rescue, master," said the French horn in some alarm. 

"Ay, that will I; but he'll have two of you floored, another strangled, and the fourth half-skinned before I can get him to stop." 
Who was in the street?
Heading where?
Was he well dressed?
In what?
Had someone been that way before him?
How many
Were they together?
How long since the first passed?
Was it a group?
And when did the second pass?
Did they reach their destination at daybreak?
Was it a modern place?
What was it like?
Were there valuables to be found?
Did they secure there places anyhow?
Did he have any words of wisdom for anyone?
Which was?
At all?
Is he a large man?
How large?
Haco Barepoles
That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove
The Cove
That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove
Yes
hat evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove, with his coat-skirts,
His coat-skirts,
That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove, with his coat-skirts,
Yes
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same directio
Two
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction. 

No
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction. 

An hour
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place
Yes
An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place,
, Half an hour later
, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction.
No
It was dark when Gildart entered the village, and all the inhabitants were in their dwellings,
No
The village was a primitive one. Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages
Primitive
The village was a primitive one
No
Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages, probably because there was nothing worth stealing within them
No
 Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages,
Yes
"Now, lads, come this way," said Gildart; "and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage.
Don't stir foot
"and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage.
After Haco enters the cottage
don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage
Yes
He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion.
Big as an elephant,
He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion.