He would get this man Lee, who held his life in his hand, and was driving him on from crime to crime, to meet him alone on the moor if he could, and shoot him.

What surety had he that Lee would leave him in peace after this next extortion?
none but his word,--the word of a villain like that.

He knew what his own word was worth; what wonder if he set a small value on Lee's?
He might be hung as it was; he would be hung for something.

Taw Steps was a wild place, and none were likely to miss either Lee or his friend.

It would be supposed they had tramped off as they came.