The air is cold upon the hills." "We did that well, sir," the sergeant said, as they rode on again.
"If you had not thought of taking shelter, and shaking them up, we should all have been shot down before we reached them.
"Is there any chance of another attack, sir ?" "None at all.

I should think a messenger was sent to them, yesterday, telling them our strength; and no doubt they thought that, with sixty men, they would be certain to overpower us.

That is probably the whole of the band, and in any case, as they would not imagine that we could pass them, they are not likely to have set another ambush." They slept that night at Almarez, made a short journey to Oropesa, and a long one on the following day to Toledo, where Desmond dismissed his escort, with a handsome reward for their services, and upon the next afternoon rode with Mike into Madrid.

The Duke of Orleans looked astonished when he entered the room.
"What! Back already, Major Kennedy?
Surely you cannot have carried out all the work that I entrusted to you ?" "By no means, Your Royal Highness; but what I did carry out was so important that I deemed it my duty to ride back at once, to acquaint you with what I have discovered.

There is the report, sir." The duke took it.
"It is a bulky one," he said.