The traveling is too hard for them to travel swiftly, even if they have automobiles.

I shall go to the hospital camp, raise a force and search the country.

The commandant will give me soldiers readily, because it would be worth while to capture such a man as Auersperg--behind our lines, too." "I don't wish to discourage you," said Weber, "but I doubt whether you can find him." "Maybe so and maybe not," said John, and then he remembered the automobile in which Julie and the Picards had come.

Doubtless it was safe behind the cathedral where they had left it, and he could force it through the snow much faster than he could walk.
"Come!" he exclaimed to Weber.

"I know of a way to save time." He rushed through the snow to the rear of the cathedral and Weber, without question, followed him.