Your friends may be far away, but if you can get to them you would have all that you need.

Therefore, this life, which is hard and rough, to say nothing of its danger, does not suit you; but for all that, you must stay with us, for it would be madness for you to attempt to escape.
"As I told you, the peasants are maddened, and would kill any passing stranger as they would a wild beast.

They would regard him as a spy of some band like ours, or of a company of disbanded soldiers, sent forward to discover which houses and villages are best worth plundering.

In your case, you have other dangers to fear.

You may be sure that news has been sent from Warsaw to all the different governors, with orders for your arrest for killing Ben Soloman, and these orders will be transmitted to every town and village.