I shall lose you before I have gone a yard, so when you hear me whistle, please whistle back, but not loud, for there may be enemies close by for aught I know.

I thought I heard voices just now." Searching about, Jack found that the clump of trees extended for some little distance.

Returning to the lieutenant, they entered the wood, and moved a little way among the trees, so as to be out of sight if the fog lifted suddenly.

Then they loosened the saddle-girths, gathered some sticks and lit a fire, and using the Cossack coats for rugs, began to discuss the meal they had brought with them.
"If the Russians really advance again, and get between us and Balaklava, I do not see how on earth we are to pass through them," Mr.
Myers said.
"No, sir, I don't think we could," Jack answered.

"I should propose that we make a wide sweep round so as to come down upon the shore some distance away.