Except that I remember them both to have been—like myself—timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air." " Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry?
As a matter of fact that man had himself been a highwayman some time before, and he took me to his home in the town and there taught me all the tricks of the trade.
If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness, he would have put himself in a fair way of getting shot instantly as a highwayman.