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?
That magnificent potentiate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green by one highwayman who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue.
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.
Much like the highwaymen we heard about in the last episode, the life of a pirate was alluring, it was attractive, it was interesting, it was completely understandable that normal people were so curious about them.
The Highwayman in the Dark was a city tradesman in the light, and being recognized and challenged by his fellow tradesmen, whom he stopped in his character of the Captain, gallantly shot him and rode away.
The Drakes, though, were committed to this new religion, so they appeared to have had to flee their home, although that might be something to do with the fact their father may well have been a highway robber.
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.