The robbery that you refer to occurs in Chapter 4, after
Dunstan's plan of selling the horse belonging to Godfrey have come to naught when the
horse dies in an accident. Making his way through Raveloe at dark, he comes across
Marner's house, and is planning on intimidating Silas Marner into giving him some money
and letting him gain interest from it as another alternative source of money. As he gets
closer and enters the house, he is surprised to see that Silas Marner has abandoned his
home with food cooking and the lantern on. Dunstan, perhaps looking for justification
for the crime he is about to commit, wonders if Silas Marner had gone out to get more
fuel and slipped into the Stone-pit:
That was an interesting idea to Dunstan, carrying
consequences of entire novelty. If the weaver was dead, who had a right to his money?
Who would know where his money was hidden? Who would know that anybody had
come to take it
away?
With this
thought, Dunstan determines to find the weaver's fabled hoard and make off with it
himself.
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