That is a matter between you and me, however. None
of these knaves ken a word of Saxon."
I suppose that I showed pretty plainly what I thought of this sort
of treachery to his comrades, for one of the others laughed at me,
and said:
"Speak him fair, Evan, speak him fair, else we shall have trouble
with him."
"I am just threatening him now," the villain said in Welsh--"after
that is time to give him a chance to behave himself," and then he
went on to me in Saxon: "Now, if you will give your word to keep
quiet and go with me as a friend I will trust you, but if
not--well, we must take you as we can. How do you prefer to go?"
He waited for an answer, but I gave him none. I would not even seem
to treat with them.
"Don't say that I did not give you a chance," he said; "but if you
will go as a captive, that is your own fault."
And as I said nothing he turned away, and said to the rest:
"We shall have to bind him. He will not go quietly."
"How shall we get him on board as a captive?" one asked.
"That would be foolishness," Evan said; "the next thing would be
that every one would know who the captive that was taken out of
Watchet was. I have a better plan than that. We will tie him up
like a sorely wounded man, and so get him shipped carefully and
quietly with no questions asked.
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