CHAPTER TWORiding home, Vanda wondered what she could do about the Taylors.
They were obviously terrified of the highwaymen.
They had begged her almost on their knees not to tell anyone about them. Nor to try to remove them from the West wing.
And thinking over what she knew about highwaymen, Vanda could understand their fear.
She had often made her father tell her about the terrible menace highwaymen had been when he was a young man.
The most famed of the highwaymen were a fraternity called the ‘Knights of the High Toby’.
A number of them, Hawkins, Maclean, Rann and Page had all been in Liveried service.
They therefore modelled themselves on their erstwhile Masters and liked to be thought of as ‘the gentlemen of the road’.
There were also, Sir Alexander had said, some men who actu
