We might very well lose ourselves among these hills, if we were to try to make a circuit." Having put the Dutch uniforms over their own, they set out, taking the way to the left until they came to the main road by which the British reserve had advanced.

Then they mounted their horses.
"It is no use trying to make our way through the broken ground, Mike.

There is another road that goes through Huerne.

We will strike that, and must so get round on the right of the enemy.

Even if we come upon them, we are not likely to excite suspicion, as we shall be on a road leading from Oudenarde.
"I was noticing that road from the height.