"About ten miles away."
"Who owns it?"
"Nobody: it is a ruin. The land belongs to the Graf von Rauhstein."
"But it is not so much a ruin that it cannot shelter your friends. How many do they number?"
"Two hundred or more."
"What are they?"
"All kinds: soldiers, outlaws—French, Bavarian, Swabian."
"And who commands them?"
"A Bavarian captain: by his speech, a foreigner born."
"That is enough, I think. We will prepare to start."