At least, I've come out here to see.

You'll forgive my jest, Mr.Scott, in writing my name under that of your party on the register, won't you?
As Mademoiselle Lannes has doubtless told you, I carried the letter from her brother, directing her to join him in Chastel, and, as my duties permitted, I came here also to see that my work was effective.

I'd have gone at once, but I heard suspicious sounds in front of the hotel, and I came out at once to investigate." "What did you find ?" "Near the cathedral I saw footprints which the falling snow had covered but partially.

No, it's not worth while to go back and investigate them.
They're under an inch of snow now." "Why did you think Germans had made them ?" Weber opened his gloved hand and disclosed something metallic, a spike from a German helmet.
"This," he said, "had become loosened and it fell from the cap of some careless fellow.

It could have been there only a few minutes, because the snow had not yet covered it.