However, I will not detain you farther." They moved away to another table and, calling for a bottle of wine, sat down.
"No, we are mistaken.

I don't think the fellow would have the bare-faced impudence to come through Prague," one said.
The other laughed.
"I should think that he would have impudence for anything, major.
And in truth, I rather hope that they won't lay hands upon him--a fellow who devised and carried out such a scheme as he did deserves his liberty.

Of course, his overpowering the warder was nothing; but that he should have had the impudence to go down into the major's quarters, appropriate his clothes, leave his own uniform behind him; and then, taking advantage of the arrival of another regiment, march calmly out through them all, pass the sentries--who took him for one of the newly-arrived officers in charge of the waggons--was really splendid! "How it was that they did not overtake him the next morning, I cannot make out.

He had no sword with him, and no horse; and the spectacle of a field officer on foot, without even a sword, should have attracted the attention of the very first person who met him.
He had not been gone two hours when troops started in pursuit; for when the major, whose door he had locked, had it burst open and found that his uniform was gone, he suspected something was wrong, and had all the sergeants in charge of prisoners mustered.
"One was missing, the man who had charge of this young Scotchman.
As he could not be found, the fellow's cell was broken open, and there was the warder, bound and gagged.

The bird had flown, and parties of horse were sent off by all the roads leading to Bohemia and Silesia, but no signs of the man have, as far as we have heard, yet been discovered.
"The only thing that I can imagine is that, when he heard the cavalry in pursuit, he left the road and hid up somewhere; and that afterwards he tried to make his way by unfrequented paths, and was starved in the snow.