We's playing it safe even though there was never any warrant for our arrest. From what we've heard the authorities believe that the Maori attacking the prison was seeking revenge for the death of Hori Hura. No doubt we's thought to be well and truly dead! The government troopers wasn't too keen to come in search of us even if we was still alive, for there be a growing dispute between the white settlers and the Maori people over possession o' the land. A bad quarrel is brewin' as the settlers becomes more greedy for Maori land, and the Maori chiefs more suspicious and unwilling to sell. To send troopers in search of them what's killed two criminals, what was going to hang anyway, weren't deemed in the best interests o' the colony. Instead, the whole business has been quickly forgotten in the name of diplomacy. Sergeant Nottingham were given the boot and retired on a government pension. We hears he has become another drunk, cadging drinks in Kororareka's hotels. Maple and Syrup has absconded to Auckland, while Mrs Barrett ain't been seen since the night o' the card game, his whereabouts unknown.
