That he is sure to do to avert suspicion from himself, and, if you were to return there, it would go hard with you.

So, for a time, you must throw in your lot with us." When this was translated to Charlie, he saw at once the force of the argument.

He could not have denied that the Jew had fallen in a hand-to-hand struggle with himself, and, were he to appear in Warsaw, he might be killed by the co-religionists of Ben Soloman; or, if he escaped this, might lie in a dungeon for months awaiting his trial, and perhaps be finally executed.

There was nothing for him now but to rejoin the Swedes, and it would be some time, yet, before he would be sufficiently recovered to undertake such a journey.
"I should not mind, if I could send a letter to Allan Ramsay, to tell him what has befallen me.

He will be thinking I am dead, and will, at any rate, be in great anxiety about me." "I have taken a liking to you, young fellow," the leader said, "and will send in one of my men to Warsaw with a letter; that is, if you can write one." "Yes, I can write.