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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 10: In Evil Plight
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You know as well as I do he has got my neck in a noose, and he has got his thumb on you." "If we can't find this Swede, I would not wait here for any money.
I would fly at once." "You would need to fly, in truth, to get beyond Ben Soloman's clutches," the charcoal burner said gruffly.

"He has got agents all over the country." "Then what would you do ?" "There is only one thing to do.

It is our lives or his.

When he rides up tomorrow, we will meet him at the door as if nothing had happened, and, with my axe, I will cleave his head asunder as he comes in.

If he sees me in time to retreat, you shall stab him in the back.


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