Page 90 - A Jacobite Exile

"That we do, sir. If you can put us in the way, we shall be grateful."

"That I can do easily," Harry said. "My father is raising a company of
Scotch and Englishmen, for the regiment commanded by Colonel Jamieson.

This will be far better than joining a Swedish company, where no one will
understand your language, and you will not be able to make out the orders
given. My father will give each man who joins a free outfit."

"That is the very thing for us, sir. We expected to find Scotch regiments

here, as there were in the old times, and we had hoped to join them; but
whether it is a company or regiment, it makes but little difference, so that
we are with those who speak our tongue."

"Very well, then. If you come to the Lion Inn, at nine o'clock, you will see

my father there. If you know of any others in the same mind as yourselves,
and willing to join, bring them with you."

"There are ten or twelve others who came over in the ship with us, two days
since, and I have no doubt they will be fine and glad to join."

"Well, see if you can hunt them up, and bring them with you."

On returning to the inn, they found that Mr. Jervoise had already received
his commission as captain, and, by ten o'clock, fifteen young Scotchmen

had been sworn in. All of them had brought broadswords and dirks, and
Captain Jervoise at once set to work buying, at various shops, iron head
pieces, muskets, and other accoutrements.

During the next three days ten other English and Scotchmen had joined,

and then a ship came in, from which they gathered another four-and-twenty
recruits. Arms had already been purchased for them, and, on the following
day, Captain Jervoise marched off to Malmoe with his forty-nine recruits.

Harry accompanied them, Charlie being left behind, with his father, to
gather another fifty men as the ships arrived.