But here there are a good many troops.

There may be Cossacks within a few miles of you.

They are raiding.

Here it is said that our first move will be to try to cut the German railways." That was all he could find out.

He arranged for word of Boris's seizure to be sent to his father, and then closed his circuit and went below, in search of old Vladimir.
By now it was afternoon, and Fred began to think that if Boris had been coming back that day he would have arrived already.