text:  Nothing appeared but a shell of a house with blackened remains of rafters or a great heap of stones not even a wall left--and huge stumps of gate-posts and not a hand extended or voice raised to demand payment for our use of a road!--that payment which the laws of the land had formally pronounced due! Had new laws been passed? Had a new mode arisen of discharging the debt we had incurred by the purchase of the use of so much road for two horses? Nothing of the kind! A mob at midnight had thrown down the barrier law had built; and law dared not or neglected to--erect it again! "Rebecca " like Jack Cade had pronounced _her_ law--"sic volo sic jubeo"--and we rode through by virtue of her most graceless Majesty's absolute edict--cost free