But before he had gone very far, coming to a narrow turning, he shot down it; then he paused for a moment to listen.
The patrol had seen the sudden dispersal of the group, and, struck with natural suspicion, quickened pace.

A few minutes brought them where Bauer was.

They jumped from their horses and ran to him.

He was unconscious, and could, of course, give them no account of how he came to be in his present state.

The fronts of all the houses were dark, the doors shut; there was nothing to connect the man stretched on the ground with either No.