Plainly, it seemed to him, Colonel Goldapp must have decided to retain him as a prisoner.
He wanted to get down near the parsonage again, but he was afraid to venture out by the secret passage.

He didn't know how thoroughly he had frightened the soldier who had so nearly caught him.

If the man had recovered his wits and decided that it was no ghost, but a very substantial and real person who had bowled him over, there would doubtless be a guard in the hollow, by the outer entrance of the tunnel.
And, in any case, it was too risky to seek egress by that means again in broad daylight.
"Vladimir," he said, when he found the old servant, "I want you to make me look like a German, if you can.

Disguise me, so that I may go down toward the village safely.

Is it possible ?" Vladimir studied him for a moment.
"I think so," he said.