On returning to the place of combat Fatia Negra found his horsemen still searching in the mud and darkness for the lost ducats, and made an attempt to reorganize his band, which did, indeed, do a little maurauding on its own account; but when the news reached him, through one of his paid spies, that four hundred infantry with a cannon had reached Szaszvar from Szeb--the very word "a connon" had such an effect upon the robbers that they scattered in every direction as if a tempest had dispersed them.

Next morning there was not a trace of them anywhere..