This young Scotch lad seems
made for a commander, and truly, if all his countrymen are like
himself, I wonder no longer that the Poles and Imperialists have
been unable to withstand them. Truly he has constructed a trap from
which this band of villains will have but little chance of escape,
and I trust that we may slay them without much loss to ourselves.
What rejoicings will there not be in the fifty villages when the
news comes that their oppressors have been killed! The good God
has assuredly sent this youth hither as His instrument in defeating
the oppressors, even as He chose the shepherd boy David out of
Israel to be the scourge of the Philistines."
By this time all was ready for a start, and having seen the wagons
fairly on their way the farmer returned to the wood, the pastor
accompanying the women. Three hours passed before there were any
signs of the marauders, and Malcolm began to think that the idea
might have occurred to them that he had gone to Glogau, and that
they might therefore have postponed their raid upon that village
until they could make sure of taking it by surprise, and so capturing
all the horses and valuables before the villagers had time to remove
them. Glogau was, however, quite out of Malcolm's direct line for
the Swedish camp, and it was hardly likely that the freebooters
would think that their late captive would go out of his way to warn
the village, in which he had no interest whatever; indeed they would
scarcely be likely to recall the fact that he had been present when
they were discussing their proposed expedition against it.
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