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`` If he gets up to start off , ask him where he is going , and if he really starts , come and call me , and we will go after him . I can dress in a minute . '' To this proposal I agreed , and I may add here that at about eleven o'clock we surprised Halse in the act of stealing away to the Corners , but after some parley and a scuffle with him , succeeded in getting him back to bed , and I lodged with Addison . It was but a short night thenceforward till five o'clock in the morning . Before going down-stairs we peeped into Halse 's room , to see if he were there still . He lay soundly asleep . Addison closed the door softly .