Make a list if what David learned about he towns' people?

David reads a newspaper. David discovers, has a reference to a king. "From what he had learned in the camp," narration comments, "David had gathered that the countries that had kings were free and their people had no need to be frightened of THEM". For several nights in a row, he returns to the town, always receiving a gift of food from the same man and always, at some point, standing and staring at the church. One night, however, he overhears the man who gave him the bread talking with some of the other people in the town about him. Fearing that their conversation means they are going to contact "THEM" (his captors) to come find and recapture him, David flees to his cave, where he collects his belongings and weeps briefly over the fact that he has to leave (see "Quotes," p. 50). He realizes, however, that he is still free, remembers everything he has learned, and resolves to keep living and keep being free. In the middle of the night, he leaves the once-welcoming town behind and continues his journey north towards Denmark.