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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 10: In Evil Plight
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Leave it standing here.

It will find its way back in time.

Then there will be a search, and there will be rejoicing in many a mansion throughout the country, when it is known that Ben Soloman is dead.
They say he has mortgages on a score of estates, and, though I suppose these will pass to others of his tribe, they can hardly be as hard and mercenary as this man was.
"I wonder what he was doing in this forest alone?
Let us follow the path, and see where he is going.
"Honred, you have a smattering of several languages, try then if you can make our new comrade understand." The man tried in Russian without success, then he spoke in Swedish, in which language Charlie at once replied.
"Where does this pathway lead to ?" "To a hut where a charcoal burner lives.

I have been imprisoned there for the last fortnight.

It was all the Jew's doing.


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