CHAPTER 14: The Battle Of Clissow.
Charlie sent in his name, and was shown in at once.
"I glad, indeed, to see you, Captain Carstairs," the minister said, as he entered.

"We had given you up for lost.

We heard first that you had been murdered in the streets of Warsaw.

A month later, a man brought a letter to me from your Scotch friend Ramsay, to say that you were accused of the murder of a Jew trader, a man, it seems, of some importance in Warsaw.

Ramsay said that you were in the company of a band of brigands, and that the man who went with you as your servant had joined you, and had taken you some money.
He forwarded the letter you had sent him explaining your position, and said he thought that, upon the whole, it was the best thing you could have done, as a vigorous search had been set on foot, at the instance of the Jews, and there would have been but little chance of your making your way through the country alone.