He made a spring forward; but Warbel laid a detaining hand upon his arm.
"It is no case for us to interfere in," he said, with clouded brow.
"If they have a heretic to deal with we must not meddle.

It is not England's way for a score to attack one; but we must not interpose betwixt Mortimer and a heretic.

That would be too much peril." But almost before the man had done speaking Edred broke away, crying out excitedly: "My brothers, my brothers! they are there in the thick of it!" and with a groan of terror and dismay Warbel recognized the voice of Bertram raised in angry scorn.
"Stand back, you cowards! Who ever heard of fifty men against one, and he a cripple?
The first who touches him I strike dead.

A heretic! Pooh! nonsense.

He is but a poor travelling peddler with his pack.