Pushing forward, I found they were surrounding four soldiers who were carrying a body on their shoulders, and made out at once it was the officer who had been talking so angrily to his companion.

Then I understood what had puzzled me before, and what you had gone outside the walls for.
"The rest was easy to guess.

The governor had come along, you had been questioned, and had been arrested as a Huguenot.

It was evident that no time was to be lost and that, if you were to be got out, it must be done quickly.
"I hurried away to the cabaret where Jacques and Roger were drinking.

We talked the matter over, and agreed that the first thing was to get the four horses out of the town.