The boys looked round, and saw a young lady who had started back in terror to a corner of the room.
"Are you English ?" Jack exclaimed in astonishment.

"We are English officers escaping from a Russian prison.

In heaven's name do not betray us!" As he spoke the Russian cavalry came along the lane at full gallop.
"I am English," the young lady said, as she recovered from her astonishment, "I am governess to the younger daughters of the governor.

You are now in his palace.

But what has taken place?
I heard the firing and went to the window to listen." "We have been aiding in the rescue of a Polish leader who was to have been executed this morning," Dick said.