By study one might have recognized them in the bandage about the hand of the other.

Somewhat disheveled was this youth, yet his young, strong body, slender and shapely, seemed even in its rest strangely full of power and confidence.
The younger man was in some fashion an epitome of the other, and it had needed little argument to show the two were brothers.

But why should two brothers, well-clad and apparently well-to-do, probably brothers from a country far to the north, be thus lying like common vagabonds beneath an English hedge?
Far down the roadway there rose a cloud of dust, which came steadily nearer, following the only vehicle in sight, probably the only one which had passed that morning.

As this little dust-cloud came slowly nearer it might have been seen to rise from the wheels of a richly-built and well-appointed coach.

Four dark horses obeyed the reins handled by a solemn-visaged lackey on the box, and there was a goodly footman at the back.