It is too long a story now.

Let us help these travellers to go their way, before the wolves rally again." "They will not do that," the captain said confidently.

"If it was night, they might hang about the neighbourhood, but they are cowardly beasts in the daytime, and easily scared.

They are still going away at their best pace, I will be bound." While Charlie was speaking to Ladislas, one of the travellers had been talking to Stanislas, who, in answer to his question, had informed him that he was in Charlie's service, and that the latter was an English gentleman, who had, from a variety of circumstances, especially the suspicion with which all strangers were regarded, been unable to travel through the country, and had therefore been passing the winter hunting, with this company of disbanded soldiers who had so opportunely arrived to their assistance.
The other traveller had, by this time, carried his wife beyond the heat of the fire, and had applied some snow to her forehead, pouring a little brandy from the flask between her lips.

She had now begun to revive, and, leaving her, he approached the party.