He must have thought he'd killed Sir Jasper.

Small wrong, some people say, if he had, for Sir Jasper was bad as many a poor girl knew to her cost." "Uncle Luke should not have gone away," I said.
"Well, you see, dearie, he thought it the kindest thing to do.

And then--there were stories.

I never believed them myself.

People asked how it was that Master Luke came to be armed.