With the exception of the sentries, who were changed every hour, the rest slept until late in the afternoon; then the horses were again fed and groomed, and another meal was eaten.
At sunset the armour was buckled on again, and they started.

They crossed the Creuse at the bridge of Argenton about midnight and, riding through La Chatre, halted before morning in a wood two miles from Saint Amand.

Here the day was passed as the previous one had been.
"Tell me, Francois," Philip said, as they were waiting for the sun to go down, "something about your cousin De la Noue.

As we are to ride with him, it is as well to know something about him.

How old is he ?" "He is thirty-six, and there is no braver gentleman in France.