I took the first turning, and bucketed along a narrow woodland road.

The hard ground would show very few tracks, I thought, and I hoped the pursuit would think I had gone on to Schwandorf.

But it wouldn't do to risk it, and I was determined very soon to get the car off the road, leave it, and take to the forest.

I took out my watch and calculated I could give myself ten minutes.
I was very nearly caught.

Presently I came on a bit of rough heath, with a slope away from the road and here and there a patch of black which I took to be a sandpit.