It is no use our going farther; we might well fall into an ambush, and in these lanes they could shoot us down helplessly.
We will move on quietly until we get to a place where there is space enough for us to dismount and bivouac.

We could not have gone many more miles, for if we did we should be a regiment without horses tomorrow morning." They proceeded very slowly and cautiously until, when they came upon an open tract of ground, the colonel ordered them to dismount and sound the trumpets.

His regiment, like those of Turenne, had been broken up, and he had but half a squadron with him.

In an hour the whole regiment was assembled; a few fires were lighted, but most of the men threw themselves down by their horses and at once went off to sleep.

The colonel and his officers sat down at one of the fires, where Hector was requested to join them.
"I suppose that your regiment took no part in the battle ?" "No, sir; we were some way from Marienthal, and I received orders only after the day was lost, to join Marshal Turenne and his cavalry on the Tauber.