'It will have kept the road.
Lectoure is no more than a league from here, and we can give orders there to have these two fetched and buried.' I had nothing to gain by demurring, and so, after another word or two, it was arranged.

We picked up what we had dropped, M.de Cocheforet helped his sister to mount, and within five minutes we were gone.
Casting a glance back from the skirts of the wood I fancied that I saw the masked man straighten himself and turn to look after us, but the leaves were beginning to intervene, the distance may have cheated me.

And yet I was not indisposed to think the unknown a trifle more observant, and a little less seriously hurt, than he seemed..