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Chapter 154

He pulled his horse to a stop about twenty yards from the approaching men. "Where is the tall one, the man with the sword?" he yelled across the narrow gap separating them.

One man took a step forward. "We have come for the herdsman and the other man, the fighter," he answered with a sneer, ignoring Jagger's question.

The Frisians looked grateful for the respite from their walk; many leaned on an assortment of unconventional weapons and wiped their brows as they rested.

"We respect yer laws and wish ye no ill will," Jagger responded. "But the herdsman did not kill the farmer. It was another man, a man we could not identify for it was dark. As fer the redjeven, Mynhear Richter, he was pushed onto the sword of my man by the tall one who isn't with ye."