I wish you to beware of him." He spoke with a sudden softness of tone that touched Robert, and there could be no doubt that his meaning was good.

They were still walking in the most casual manner, their faces bent to the driving snow, and almost hidden by the collars of their cloaks.
"What can Adrian Van Zoon and I have in common ?" asked Robert.
"Lad, I bid thee again to beware of him! Look to it that you do not fall into his treacherous hands!" His sudden use of the pronoun "thee," and his intense earnestness, stirred Robert deeply.
"Friends seem to rise around me, due to no merit of mine," he said.

"Willet has always watched over me.

Tayoga is my brother.
Jacobus Huysman has treated me almost as his own son, and Master Benjamin Hardy has received me with great warmth of heart.

And now you deliver to me a warning that I cannot but believe is given with the best intent.