“If there is not a tumult against me at once, men will judge me differently after the first battle,” thought Kmita, when entering Byala.
He arrived in the evening, announced who he was, whence he had come, that he was bearing letters from the king, and asked a special audience of the voevoda.
The voevoda received him graciously because of the warm recommendation of the king, who wrote,—
“We send to you our most faithful servant, who is called the Hector of Chenstohova, from the time of the siege of that glorious place; and he has saved our freedom and life at the risk of his own during our passage through the mountains. Have him in special care, so that no injustice come to him from the soldiers. We know his real name, and the reasons for which he serves under an assumed one; no man is
