A highwayman comes riding , up to the old inn-door .
强盗快马飞奔，来到老客栈的门口。
This mirrors the true story of captain meadows taylor who published " confessions of a thug " in 1839 , a bestseller based on a murderous highwayman named ameer ali .
So young , tight-lipped sheppard , still in his teens , only five feet four inches tall , and very slender and pale , became a petty thief , then a highwayman , with no future to hope for except the gallows or rival 's bullet .
