The lusty man next him with the red head I have not seen before.

The four on this side are all workers, three of them in the service of the bailiff of Sir Baldwin Redvers, and the other, he with the sheepskin, is, as I hear, a villein from the midlands who hath run from his master.

His year and day are well-nigh up, when he will be a free man." "And the other ?" asked Alleyne in a whisper.

"He is surely some very great man, for he looks as though he scorned those who were about him." The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head.

"You have had no great truck with the world," she said, "or you would have learned that it is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.