Then we will dig a big hole in the wood, and throw him in, and we will kill his horse and bury it with him.
"Who would ever be the wiser?
I was going to propose it last time, only I was not sure of you then; but, now that you are in it as deep as I am--deeper, indeed, for he put you here specially to look after this youngster--your interest in the matter is as great as mine." The Jew was silent for some time, then he said: "He has got papers at home which would bring me to the gallows." "Pooh!" the other said.

"You do not suppose that, when it is found that he does not return, and his heirs open his coffers, they will take any trouble about what there may be in the papers there, except such as relate to his money.

I will warrant there are papers there which concern scores of men besides you, for I know that Ben Soloman likes to work with agents he has got under his thumb.

But, even if all the papers should be put into the hands of the authorities, what would come of it?
They have got their hands full of other matters, for the present, and with the Swedes on their frontier, and the whole country divided into factions, who do you think is going to trouble to hunt up men for affairs that occurred years ago?
Even if they did, they would not catch you.

They have not got the means of running you down that Ben Soloman has.
"I tell you, man, it must be done.