The charcoal burner carried a heavy axe, while the Jew, whose head was bound up with a cloth, had a long knife in his girdle.

They went as far as the end of the forest, and then retraced their steps slowly.

They were talking loudly, and Charlie could gather, from the few words he understood, and by their gestures, something of the purport of their conversation.
"I told you it was of no use your coming on as far as this," the Jew said.

"Why, he was hardly strong enough to walk." "He managed to knock you down, and afterwards to drag you into the house," the other said.
"It does not require much strength to knock a man down with a heavy club, when he is not expecting it, Conrad.

He certainly did drag me in, but he was obliged to sit down afterwards, and I watched him out of one eye as he was making his preparations, and he could only just totter about.