27/30 Maybe, while we are questioning them, a party of those we are in search of may be traversing some other road. Let us be riding forward." He roughly pricked his horse with his spur, and the troop rode on. "Anyone could see, with half an eye, that those two fellows were, as they said, old men-at-arms. There is a straightness and a stiffness about men who have been under the hands of the drill sergeant there is no mistaking; and I could swear that fellow is a Gascon, as he said. I was about to question him, when you broke in. |