This was so evident that the chief was silenced for a moment.
"How long is it since any of you saw him last ?" "He went round with the wineskin, and filled our cups just as we sat down to breakfast," one of the men said.

"I have not noticed him since." Nor had any of the others.
"Then it will be no use to pursue.

He has had more than half an hour's start, and long before this he will have mounted Ben Soloman's horse, and have ridden off.
"Well, comrade," he said, turning to Charlie, "this settles your movements.

I was but half in earnest before as to your joining us; but it is clear now that there's nothing else for you to do, for the present.

This fellow will, directly he gets to Warsaw, denounce you as the murderer of his master.