ot even seized the opportunity to escape.

Back again along the road to Drawwell, therefore, the whole sulky
company of horsemen were obliged to return, much out of humour.
Cursing their leader's carelessness, as he doubtless cursed his own
folly, they trotted along, gloomily enough, till they came to the bend
of the road where the homestead comes in sight, and where they had
taken leave of their prisoners. There, as they turned the corner,
suddenly they all stopped, thunderstruck, pulling their horses back on
to their haunches in their amazement.

The Lambs had not escaped! Though they had not followed meekly to the
slaughter-house, at least they had made no endeavours to flee, or even
to return to the sheepfold on the hillside above them. All the time
that the soldiers had been carousing in the alehouse, or searching the
lanes, the little company of Friends had remained in the very same
spot where the soldiers had left them nearly two hours before.

And there they were still, every one of them;--sitting on the green,
grassy bank by the wayside. There they were, quietly going on with
their uninterrupted worship. Yes; out there, under the shadow of the
everlasting hills, untroubled by the shadow of even a passing cloud of
fear, the Friends calmly continued to wait upon God.

FOOTNOTES:

[32] This paragraph is taken from E.E. Taylor's description of
Drawwell.

XXIII. BUTTERFLIES IN THE FELLS

_'My concern for God and His holy,
eternal truth was then in the
North, where God had placed and
set me.'--MARGARET FOX._

_'I should be glad if thou would
incline to come home, that thou
might get a little Rest, methinks
its the most comfortable when one
has a home to be there, but the
Lord give us patience to bear all
things'--M. FOX to G. Fox, 1681._

_'I did not stir much abroad
during the time I now stayed in
the North; but when Friends were
not with me spent pretty much time
in writing books and papers for
Truth's service.'--G. FOX._

_'All dear Friends press forward
in the straight way.'--JOHN AUDLAND._

_'Is not liberty of conscience in
religion a fundamental?... Liberty