wayman

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Only let it be conceived with sufficient force and nourished by continual attention and it will grow into a veritable high-wayman of the mind -- a thievish tyrant of one's mental roads, holding their more legitimate travellers at the stand and deliver.

The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901
"Dere mister Stone, You don't need worry about the check-wayman.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923