Of course we could make nothing of it, but on we ran.

Then there was another outbreak of firing, this time quite close.

A moment later we caught sight of a confused mass.
There was a fire, and a sledge with two horses, and a man standing up in it shooting; and we could see a desperate fight going on with the wolves in front, so Alexander and Hugo fired their pieces into the thick of them.

We set up a yell, and went at them with our axes, yet I did not feel by any means sure that they would not be too many for us.
"But what on earth does it all mean?
And how is it that you have lived through the night?
We had no expectation of finding you alive.

However, that fire tells its own tale, as though nothing less than burning up a big tree would content you." "I will tell you all, presently.