"They ride fast." "Not so fast," said Ivan.

"There may be fighting to do as well as running, and for fighting you need horses that are not too tired.

It would be foolish to save an hour or two by hard riding and lose everything at the end for lack of the power to break through.

And a motorcycle can do better than the fastest horse." "But how did you get one ?" asked Fred.

"And the German uniform ?" Ivan smiled significantly.
"I met a man of about my size," he said.