What had caused them to hunt down Rofflash?
Not because he had committed a robbery on the King's highway.

The rabble had a secret sympathy with highwaymen.
"What have you done ?" whispered the old man through his white lips.
"Shot a man.

It was a fair fight--or might have been had it come to a tussle." Mountchance knew Rofflash to be a hardened liar.

The truth probably was that he had committed a murder.

But there was no time to argue the point.