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and leaned toward her as he said, “It’ll be fun, just
you and me.”
    “No!” Robin yelled as she pushed him away.
    The man grinned. “I love a feisty woman.” Then
he commanded, “Get in the cart or I’ll have to put you in.”
    Andrew heard the man as he tried to force
himself upon his daughter. He had to pretend he was a cripple and
needed his cane, but he couldn’t allow this man to bother Robin.
Andrew instantly strode outside and raised his cane in the air,
ready to smack the man on the head. Before he could swing, he felt
a hand grab hold of the cane.
    “No! Let me take care of this,” said a deep
voice.
    Daniel winked at him and then grabbed hold
of the soldier, yanked him away from Robin, and threw him to the
ground.
    “Be on your way, soldier!”
    The soldier blinked a couple of times, as if
he couldn’t believe someone would handle one of the king’s men in
such a way. When the man looked up at Daniel, his eyes flamed with
anger.
    “Do you know who I am?”
    “Uhm… A lecherous old man?” asked Daniel
with a grin.
    The soldier’s eyes widened as he blurted
out, “You’re under arrest.”
    “For what? Defending a woman’s honor?”
    The man immediately got to
his feet. Seeing that the soldier was ready to fight, Daniel clenched his fist and gave a powerful punch into
the man’s stomach. As he bent over and grunted, Daniel quickly gave a strong uppercut right into the
man’s chin with all his might. A dazed look came over the soldier’s
face as he crumpled to the ground.
    When Andrew looked at him with amazement,
Daniel shrugged. “I didn’t do much. If you hit your opponent in the
chin, he’s out. I was worried your cane would just infuriate him
and he might have hurt you.”
    Andrew nodded as he looked around. “Quickly!
Put him in the cart before someone comes back and sees us.”
    Daniel hefted the man into the cart and then
winked at Robin. “Is it all right if we take him for a ride?”
    She nodded. “Of course. What are we going to
do with him?”
    Daniel shrugged as he covered the man with
part of the canvas. “We’ll come up with something.”
    He helped her into the seat and then climbed
into the cart and sat beside her. With a whip of the reins, the
mule took off down the street and out of town.
    As they headed toward the forest, he turned
to her and grinned as he said, “Don’t worry. I won’t let Robin’s
Rebels hurt you.”
    “Thank you so much,” she said with a
snicker. “I really appreciate it.”
    Daniel looked at her and asked, “So you’re
not afraid?”
    “Of course not. It’s the king’s soldiers
that should be afraid.”
    He chuckled. “It won’t be too long until
those rebels are joined with the Freemen, though.”
    “What?” Robin asked in astonishment.
    “I’ve heard the rumors. There’s some sort of
competition going on. If the Freemen win, they have to join.
There’s one thing I don’t understand, though.”
    “What’s that?” she asked curiously.
    “Well, you seem to know a few of Robin’s
followers. Why do you suppose they’re holding back?”
    Robin bit her lip and
looked off in the distance at the woods and rolling hills in the background. She
sighed as she softly said, “There are leaders of different rebel
groups who don’t have any scruples whatsoever.”
    “Scruples?” asked Daniel with confusion.
“What do you mean?”
    She looked into his eyes as she nervously
rubbed her hand against her thigh and said, “Some don’t have a
sense for right and wrong or even a conscience. When Robin heard of
different atrocities this one group was doing, it made everyone
angry. They had taken a bunch of aristocrats from this one town
simply because they were rich and supported the king.” She bit her
lip with sorrow as she anxiously rubbed her thigh and said, “The
rebels did away with them.”
    “What?” said Daniel with stunned
surprise.
    She nodded. “To Robin, that was uncalled
for. We’re here to fight for our rights