"Why, I don't see how they could determine which
were the guilty ones in so short a time."

"WHICH ones? Indeed, they considered not par-
ticulars like to that. They condemned them in a body.
Wit ye not the law? -- which men say the Romans left
behind them here when they went -- that if one slave
killeth his master all the slaves of that man must die
for it."

"True. I had forgotten. And when will these
die?"

"Belike within a four and twenty hours; albeit some
say they will wait a pair of days more, if peradventure