None of these knaves ken a word of Saxon." I suppose that I showed pretty plainly what I thought of this sort of treachery to his comrades, for one of the others laughed at me, and said: "Speak him fair, Evan, speak him fair, else we shall have trouble with him." "I am just threatening him now," the villain said in Welsh--"after that is time to give him a chance to behave himself," and then he went on to me in Saxon: "Now, if you will give your word to keep quiet and go with me as a friend I will trust you, but if not--well, we must take you as we can.

How do you prefer to go ?" He waited for an answer, but I gave him none.

I would not even seem to treat with them.
"Don't say that I did not give you a chance," he said; "but if you will go as a captive, that is your own fault." And as I said nothing he turned away, and said to the rest: "We shall have to bind him.

He will not go quietly." "How shall we get him on board as a captive ?" one asked.
"That would be foolishness," Evan said; "the next thing would be that every one would know who the captive that was taken out of Watchet was.

I have a better plan than that.