"Besides, at the moment I had no suspicion of what they'd been doing.

I believed them to be stragglers from a neighboring shooting-party who had lost their way." "Ah, most unfortunate!" he said.

"I hope they don't escape us.

If they're foreigners, they are not likely to get away.

But if they're English or Scots, then I fear there's but little chance of us coming up with them.