He made no effort to hide from himself the dangers that surrounded him in the land of the enemy, and remounting he rode briskly forward.

As the ground was firm and the forest was free enough from undergrowth to permit of speed he finally broke into a gallop which he maintained for a half-hour.
He struck marsh again and was a long time in passing through it.

But when he was a half-mile on the other side he drew into a dense cluster of bushes and waited.

He could not get the flight of the deer out of his mind, and knowing that it was well in the wilderness to obey premonitions he watched more closely.
Dick sat on his horse behind the bush a full five minutes, and presently he became conscious that his heart was pounding heavily.

He exerted his will and called himself foolish, but in vain.