“I knew him and fought with him; but where he is now, I know not.”
“What do you think of him?”
“Gracious Lord, since he undertook such a deed there are no torments of which he is not worthy, for he is an abortion of hell.”
“That story is untrue,” said the king; “it is all an invention of Prince Boguslav. But putting that affair aside, what do you know of Kmita in times previous?”
“He was always a great soldier, and in military affairs incomparable. He used to steal up to Hovanski so that with a few hundred people he brought the whole force of the enemy to misery; no other man could have done that. It is a miracle that the skin was not torn from him and stretched over a drum. If at that time some one had placed Prince Radzivill himself in the hands of Hovanski, he would not have given h
