The String of Pearls (1850), p. 592

"Here I am. Oh, yes I'm coming on—as quick as you like now, Lupin. The dread of capture banishes all fatigue. I can now run like a hunted hare."
"There is no occasion," said Lupin. "This way. We must hide now; speed would do us but little good against horsemen.—This way."
Lupin ran on until he got to the turn of the lane, which hid the horsemen from Highgate effectually from their view; and as the mounted party coming from the direction of Hampstead had not got so far as to appear, he thought it was just the place to halt at.
"Now, Todd," he said, "we must get over the hedge here, and our only chance of safety, if these men are really on the look-out for us, is to hide in the meadow."
Without waiting for Todd to make any remark upon the very doubtful means of escape presented, Lupin scrambled through the hedge road then followed him, and the first care of Lupin's was to arrange the twigs that had been displaced in the hedge by their passage through it, so that there should not appear to be any gap at all there.
Immediately upon the other side of the hedge which they had thus crossed there was a ditch, and a large heap of manure. Mr. Lupin, without the slightest ceremony, laid himself down, and pulling a lot of the manure heap over him, he nearly covered himself quite up.
"This is very shocking," said Todd.
"It's quite a luxury compared to a cell in Newgate, replied Lupin. You had better be quick."
The word Newgate acted upon the imagination of Todd as a very powerful spell, and he at once lay down and began to follow the example of his friend, Lupin; and indeed so very anxious was he while he was about it to hide himself completely, that he nearly smothered himself outright in the manure.
"I hope this will do," he moaned.
"Silence!" said Lupin.
Todd was as still as death in a moment.
As they now lay close to the earth, all sounds upon it were much more clearly brought to their senses than when they were walking, so that there was no sort of difficulty in distinguishing the tread of the horses that were coming from Highgate from those that proceeded from the other direction, and which latter
ones were not quite so near as the others.
Faintly, too, they could hear the hum of commotion, which showed that the party consisted of three or four persons.
And now the mounted men from Highgate got right down into the hollow, close to the bend in the lane, and they paused, while one said, in a clear voice—
"We ought not to go any further. Those from Hampstead should meet us now, I think."
"They are coming," said another.
"Ah I so they are. I wonder if they have seen anything of the rascals. I do hope they will soon be nabbed, for this patrolling business is very tiresome."
These words were quite sufficient, if any doubt had been upon the minds of Lupin and Todd, to convince them that the mounted men were after them, and of the great peril they would have been in if they had staid in the lane.
To be sure there was nothing in what had been said to add to the supposition that the horsemen had any knowledge of the fact that the persons they sought were in that neighbourhood, and that might be considered to decrease the danger a little; but yet it was sufficiently great, under all circumstances.
In the course of the next two minutes the Hampstead party came up and joined the others.
"Any luck?" said one.
"No, we came right on across the heath, but we neither saw nor heard any thing of them, and it is quite impossible to say, as yet, that they have come in this direction at ail. I don't myself think it at all likely."
"Why not?"