CHAPTER XI.
"Hello, there!" he hailed, seeing but not recognizing me; "have you seen any cavalry pass this way ?" "No, I have not," I answered in English.
"Eh?
What's that ?" not quite believing it was English he had heard.
"I said that no cavalry has passed this way since this afternoon.

Are they looking for you, you jail-bird in perspective ?" He was near enough now.

"Well, I be dam'!" he cried.

"What the devil are you doing here, of all places ?" "I was looking for you," said I, locking my arm in his.
"Everybody has been making that their occupation since I left Austria," cursing lowly.

"I never saw such people." "What have you been doing this time ?" "Nothing; but I want to do something right away.