Come with us now.

I will get you a horse if you are able to ride.

The Uhlans left some behind!" Fred could ride, and said so.

And in a few minutes he was riding toward the fires that twinkled before them, side by side with the Russian officer, who was anxious to know all that Fred could tell him.
"That was splendid!" he cried enthusiastically when he heard how Fred had discovered the real purpose of the Germans by his ruse in pretending to be deaf and dumb.

"And it means, too, that we will get some real work to do here in this quarter.