CHAPTER 8: What is Mr. Snell afraid he will do next (after disagreeing about the peddler)? How is his fear heightened? What does Godfrey do? Why

Mr. Snell recalls that a mysterious pedlar, who had been in the region recently, had carried a tinder-box to light his pipe when he had stopped in at the Rainbow for a drink. This stranger is recalled as a swarthy, foreign-looking fellow, "bod[ing] little honesty" in the prejudiced imaginations of the villagers. Only Godfrey Cass voices an opinion that the pedlar was not so evil-looking a creature as the village has made him out to be--but his opinion is dismissed as a youthful speculation. The elders of the village are fairly well convinced of the pedlar's guilt.