26/43 Eight of the friends of Morgan had sworn the death of Owen that morning, and it was the leader of them who set us on. He was not there, for he waited on another road." "Were you one of the eight ?" "That I am not," he said. "I and my men were but hired, as Morgan was wont to hire us now and then. When we took you methought that it was well for me, for through you I might be inlawed again, even as I told you." "Who was this leader ?" I asked, heeding this last speech not at all. Also there are these of the great men of Cornwall and Dyvnaint." He called over the names of the other seven, and I repeated them that I should not forget. |