"We only arrived on the spot when it was all over." The Jew looked at Charlie in astonishment.
"What! Did he kill Ben Soloman ?" "That did he; or rather, the Jew killed himself.

There was a grapple hand to hand, and a wrestle.

The Jew fell undermost, and was pierced with his own knife." "But the lad is but just out of a sickbed, and has no strength for a struggle, and Ben Soloman, though past middle life, was strong and active." "Neither strong enough nor active enough," the man laughed.

"You have been nicely taken in.

Who would have thought that two Jews and a Pole would have been cheated by an English lad?
His face shows that he has been ill, and doubtless he has not yet recovered his full strength, but he was strong enough, anyhow, to overthrow Ben Soloman.
"Now, what have you in the hut?
We are in need of provisions." The hut was ransacked; the flour, two bottles of spirits, and a skin of wine seized, and the meat cut up and roasted over the fire.
After the meal was eaten, the captain called upon Charlie to tell his story more fully, and this he did, with the aid of the man who spoke Swedish; starting, however, only at the point when he was attacked in the street, as he felt it better to remain silent as to his connection with the Swedish army.
"But what was the cause of Ben Soloman's hostility to you ?" "There are some in Warsaw who are of opinion that Augustus of Saxony has done much harm to Poland, in engaging without cause in the war against Charles of Sweden, and who think that it would be well that he should be dethroned, and some other prince made king in his place.