In sooth, I think it is easier.

The men in charge rush back for help, thinking the more easily to track and follow us;" and then Lord Claud broke into a soft laugh, and began to whistle cheerily as they galloped forward.
These horses were wonderfully strong and fleet.

Tom could not but remark it as they galloped mile after mile with unwearied energy.
Lord Claud smiled in the moonlight as he replied: "Oh yes, that is necessary.

It is well to prove an alibi, if you know what that is, good Tom.

The honest folks where we come from will swear that we and our steeds were abed all night over yonder; but even if that should not be enough, there will be many who will declare that if we did not leave St.Albans till past ten, we could never be at the spot I am aiming for and back again before break of day; and I shall take care to call mine host up betimes, so that there will be plenty of evidence that I have not been abroad this night." Tom had heard often enough of the good understanding existing between innkeepers and the highway robbers who infested the roads, and now he began to see the workings of it, and to understand how easy it made some of these excursions, and how difficult it must afterwards be to obtain evidence against the freebooters.