"You killed him, you mean.

Of what did he die ?" Hagthorpe looked at the boy.

"If I am a judge," he said, "Don Diego died of fear." Don Esteban struck Hagthorpe across the face at that, and Hagthorpe would have struck back, but that Blood got between, whilst his followers seized the lad.
"Let be," said Blood.

"You provoked the boy by your insult to his father." "I was not concerned to insult," said Hagthorpe, nursing his cheek.

"It is what has happened.