After walking for half an hour along the edge of the wood, they came to a track issuing out of it.

This they followed, and in about two hours saw a village in front of them.
"I will go in and buy the things that we want, Paolo, and do you make a circuit round it.

If the news has reached them of our escape they will have been told to look for two men; and the entry of a single countryman will excite no suspicion, for of course no one will know what disguise we have chosen.
"Do not be anxious if I do not come along for half an hour.

It will be more natural that I should call for bread and cheese and beer and eat them there; then I can say carelessly that I may as well take some with me to eat later on." "You are early!" the owner of the cabaret said as Hector entered.
"I ought to have been earlier," he replied in a grumbling voice; "but it was so late before I reached the other side of the forest, that instead of passing through it I thought it best to wait till daybreak, for it would be desperately dark under the trees, and sometimes there are pretty rough fellows to be met with there; so I slept in a shed until an hour before daybreak and then started, and I lost no time in getting through it, I can tell you.

What can you give me now ?" "The usual thing," the man said, shrugging his shoulders.