"Fifteen or twenty men to overpower a lad.

What could have been more easy?
However, I will do something for the friends of the men who were fools enough to get themselves killed, but if I hear any grumbling from the others, it will be worse for them; there is not one I could not lay by the heels in jail.
"Well, as to this young fellow, I shall not come again.

I do not want to be noticed coming here.

Keep a shrewd lookout after him." "There is no fear about that," the man said.

"It will be long ere he is strong enough to walk." "When he gets better, we will have him taken away to a safe place outside the town.