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IN SWEDEN 85

head-pieces, muskets, and other accoutrements. During
the next three days ten other English and Scotchmen had
joined, and then a ship came in from which they gathered
another four-and-twenty recruits. Arms had already been
purchased for them, and on the following day Captain
Jervoise marched off to Malmoe with his forty-nine recruits.
Harry accompanied them, Charlie being left behind with
his father to gather another fifty men as the ships arrived.

A week later this number was obtained, and Charlie
started with them for the camp, Sir Marmaduke accom-
panying them on horseback, in order to aid Charlie in
maintaining order among his recruits. He had already
fixed upon a small house just outside the town, and having
met two or three old friends who had been obliged to leave
England at William’s accession, he already began to feel
at home.

“Don’t you fidget about me, Charlie,” hesaid. “Ferrers
tells me that there are at least a score of Jacobites here, and
that they form quite a society among themselves. Living
is very cheap, and he will introduce me to a man of busi-
ness, who will see that my money is well invested.”