Those brutes that attacked us may return with reinforcements--indeed I think it more than likely that they will--in which case your sword, my dear baron, and my stick might not be enough to scatter them again.

We don't want to kill any of them, and have the cries of widows and orphans resounding in our ears; and besides, it might be awkward for us if we were obliged to do it in self-defence, and then were hauled up before the local justice of peace to answer for it." There was so much good sense in this advice that it was unanimously agreed to follow it, and in less than an hour, after having settled their account at the inn, they, were once more upon the road..