I cannot tell fully what the others felt, but in me at least the dominant impulse was to waste not a moment in proclaiming the crime and raising the whole country in pursuit of Rupert, so that every man in Ruritania should quit his work, his pleasure, or his bed, and make it his concern to take the Count of Hentzau, alive or dead.

I remember that I walked over to where Sapt was sitting, and caught him by the arm, saying: "We must raise the alarm.

If you'll go to Zenda, I'll start for Strelsau." "The alarm ?" said he, looking up at me and tugging his moustache.
"Yes: when the news is known, every man in the kingdom will be on the lookout for him, and he can't escape." "So that he'd be taken ?" asked the constable.
"Yes, to a certainty," I cried, hot in excitement and emotion.

Sapt glanced across at Mr.Rassendyll's servant.

James had, with my help, raised the king's body on to the bed, and had aided the wounded forester to reach a couch.