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We wanted to cross over yesterday, but we were beaten in the attempt; they pursued us half the day, then we hid ourselves in the woods. The soldiers scattered and only this morning some of them returned." "And Ragnety?" Skirwoilla stretched his long arms, pointed toward the north, and said: "Far! Far...."
Macko sat down with Skirwoilla upon a pine stump covered with a bear skin. Then he ordered the servants to bring little tubs full of mead from which the knights drew with tin cups and drank. Then after they had taken refreshment, Macko asked: "Do you want to undertake an expedition?" "Burn the German castles...." "Which?" "Ragnety," said Zbyszko.
"Conquerors are those who least expect an attack," murmured Skirwoillo. Here Macko interrupted and began to support Zbyszko's plans, because he understood that the young man had more hope to hear something near Ragnety than near Old Kowno, and that there were more chances to take important hostages at Ragnety who might serve for exchange.
"Because there is a voice within me which tells me that Danuska is at Ragnety, and they are guarded less than they are here." "There was no time to continue the conversation then, for I too was fatigued and the people after the defeat gathered in the woods. But now, tell me, how is it? Do you mean to search for the girl forever?" "I say that she is not a girl, but my wife," replied Zbyszko.
When they had fortified themselves, they tried to sleep, but they could not; Macko turned from side to side, and when he observed Zbyszko sitting near the fire covering his knees with twigs, he asked: "Listen! Why did you give advice to go as far as Ragnety against Gotteswerder, and not near here? What do you profit by it?"
"We were three days in the neighborhood of Nowe Kowno, and they beat us." "Just so," said Skirwoilla. "How so?" "Well." "Wait," said Macko, "I am a stranger here, and do not know where Nowe Kowno and Ragnety are." "From this place to Old Kowno is less then a mile," replied Zbyszko, "and from that place to Nowe Kowno, is the same distance. The castle is situated upon an island.
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