The roofs they were on were perhaps six feet higher than ours, so even from our shelter we could mark their course.

If Hussin were going to be hunted across Erzerum it was a bad look-out for us, for I hadn't the foggiest notion where we were or where we were going to.
But as we watched we saw something more.

The wavering lanterns were now three or four hundred yards away, but on the roofs just opposite us across the street there appeared a man's figure.

I thought it was one of the hunters, and we all crouched lower, and then I recognized the lean agility of Hussin.

He must have doubled back, keeping in the dusk to the left of the pursuit, and taking big risks in the open places.
But there he was now, exactly in front of us, and separated only by the width of the narrow street.
He took a step backward, gathered himself for a spring, and leaped clean over the gap.