"He will have to pay for his brother's deed tomorrow, in all likelihood, also.

But who wrote the letter, and who slew Tregoz ?" Owen thought for a little while.
"Mara, Dunwal's daughter, is the most likely person to have written," he said.

"It would be like a woman to do so, and she seems at least no enemy.

Maybe the man was the sentry, after all, and fled because he had given up his arms, and so was sharer in the deed that he repented of.

Or he may have been some friend of ours, or foe of the Cornishman, who would not wait for the rough handling of the guard when they found him there where he should not be.