Highway Robbery by Kate Thompson

Author:Kate Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781407048741
Publisher: RHCP

But it wasn’t to last for long. The captain soon came back and gave an order to his troop, and straight away the soldiers began to clear the crowd and send everyone off about their business. Then the soldiers too went away, leaving only the captain and the one he had been talking to, and the two horses belonging to them.

The captain came up to me and bent his knees again so he could look me in the eye.

‘What’s your name, boy?’ he said.

I told him, and he went on, ‘Well, it seems to me that you are a most trustworthy young man.’

I nodded earnestly. As I’m sure you can tell by now, sir, this was very perceptive of the captain.

‘Good lad,’ he went on. ‘Good lad. And how would you like to do a piece of work for the King?’

‘I should like that very much, Captain,’ I said.

‘Good,’ he said. ‘And you won’t find it difficult at all.’

For a moment I dared to imagine myself dressed in scarlet uniform and riding the black mare into a fearsome battle – but it was not that kind of work that the captain had in mind.

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