Owen's coming saved me then." Evan was not the first man whom I had known to be driven into evil ways by misfortune and powerful enemies.

I had little blame for him.

A man will do much to save his neck from the rope.

But this did not tell me how he knew the plans of Tregoz after I set him free in Dyfed.
"Then you came back to the Cornishman after I freed you ?" I asked.
"That I did not, Thane, for the best of reasons.

He would have hanged me at once if he were in power, and I had not meant to let him set eyes on me again in any case, for he was treacherous.