He added that he felt confident that, if alive, you would manage somehow to rejoin us before the campaign opened in the spring.
"I am glad that you have been able to do so, but your appearance, at present, is rather that of a wealthy Polish noble, than of a companion of brigands." "I was able to do some service to Count Staroski, as, when travelling with his wife and child, and his brother, Count John, he was attacked by a pack of wolves.

I have been staying with him for some weeks, and his brother has now had the kindness to accompany me here.

He has thereby made my passage through the country easy, as we have travelled with fast horses in his sledge, and have always put up at the chateaux of nobles of his acquaintance.

I have, therefore, avoided all risk of arrest at towns.

In the letter forwarded to you I explained the real circumstances of the death of the Jew." "Yes, we quite understood that, Captain Carstairs.