198 A JACOBITE EXILE

“Where does this pathway lead to?”

“Vo a hut where a charcoal-burner lives. I have been
imprisoned there for the last fortnight. It was all the Jew’s
doing. It was through him that I got this knock here; ”
and he pointed to the unhealed wound at the back of his
head.

“Well, we may as well pay them a visit,” the chief said,
when this was translated to him. “We are short of flour,
and they may have some there, and maybe something else
that will be useful.”