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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 11: With Brigands
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It will be a dangerous business at the best, but with your man with you, to bear the brunt of replying to questions, I have every confidence that you will succeed in making your way through.

As to this, I can give no advice, as there is no saying as to the point from which you may start, or the directions in which you may travel.
"Should you, at any time, find yourself in a town in which there are any of my countrymen established in trade, and you will find them nearly everywhere, use my name.

I think it is pretty generally known to Scotchmen in Poland.

You will see I have inclosed a note that will be useful to you." The inclosure contained only a few words: "I, Allan Ramsay, merchant of Warsaw, do declare the bearer of this note to be my friend, and beg any countrymen of mine, to whom he may present himself, to assist him in every way, and, should he require money, to furnish him with it, I undertaking to make myself responsible for the same, and to pay all monies and other charges that he may incur." "The first thing to do," Charlie said, as he placed the letters in his doublet, "is to let the leader of our band know that other bodies of troops, besides that at the hut, are about to enter the forest.

He may decide that it is necessary to march away at once." As soon, indeed, as the outlaw received the tidings, he issued orders for the band to prepare for instant departure.
"A party of five or six men together," he said to Charlie, "might hide in this forest for years.


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