What is his crime?
He liked it better there, so he went there." "And you saw him face to face ?" "Face to face, by heavens! such a magnificent warrior! more splendid than all the rest.

God bless him, he knew me, and when I approached him he said at once--" "What did he say ?" "He said--First he beckoned me with his finger, and then he said, 'Yankel!' Lord Andrii said, 'Yankel, tell my father, tell my brother, tell all the Cossacks, all the Zaporozhtzi, everybody, that my father is no longer my father, nor my brother my brother, nor my comrades my comrades; and that I will fight them all, all.'" "You lie, imp of a Jew!" shouted Taras, beside himself.

"You lie, dog! I will kill you, Satan! Get away from here! if not, death awaits you!" So saying, Taras drew his sword.
The terrified Jew set off instantly, at the full speed of his thin, shrunken legs.

He ran for a long time, without looking back, through the Cossack camp, and then far out on the deserted plain, although Taras did not chase him at all, reasoning that it was foolish to thus vent his rage on the first person who presented himself.
Then he recollected that he had seen Andrii on the previous night traversing the camp with some woman, and he bowed his grey head.

Still he would not believe that so disgraceful a thing could have happened, and that his own son had betrayed his faith and soul.
Finally he placed his men in ambush in a wood--the only one which had not been burned by the Cossacks--whilst the Zaporozhians, foot and horse, set out for the three gates by three different roads.