Ah, well I was confused by the fact that the bandits didn't seem to ask us to do anything, but were sending "Tod" with us to make sure we did it.
I see now that we're just going with what Ydalon had said, and the bandits were responding by taking that for granted. Got ya.
Oh, and you dang whipper-snappers don't know nothing about nothing! A barrel of booze was a quarter of a copper!! :p