Hasdi takes Jamie into a small room and treats the wounds on his back. Rebekah is to marry the son of the chief rabbi of the Paris synagogue. Hasdi wants Jamie and Ian to safeguard and protect his granddaughter Rebekah bat-Leah Hauberger as she travels to Paris with a very old and precious Torah scroll and a large sum of money that make up her dowry. But Ian tells Jamie that Jenny has enough tenants to look after her and Jamie needs him here.Īfter delivering the rugs, the mercenary captain takes Jamie and Ian to meet their next client, a Jewish physician named Dr. He wants him to go home and look after Jenny and Lallybroch. Ian tells Jamie that he will help him kill Jack Randall, but Jamie says he wants Ian to do something else for him. He reveals that he was part of a Jewish group of bandits who rob other Jews. Some of the attackers get away with one of the rugs, one is killed and another is tortured for information. They are ambushed en route but manage to fight off the attackers. The mercenaries' first job is to deliver a wagon of rugs to a Jewish moneylender in Bordeaux. Jamie's wounds on his back are still raw and he blames himself for his father's death. Murtagh tells Jamie to stay with Ian and not to come back to Scotland. In October 1740 Murtagh Fraser takes Jamie to join the group of mercenaries that Ian Murray is serving with in France. Pierre Robert Heriveaux d'Anton, Vicomte Beaumont.The story is set in 1740, in France, in which Jamie Fraser (aged nineteen) and his friend Ian Murray (aged twenty) become young mercenaries.
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