"I waited a quarter of an hour and then rode on, as we agreed.
"Well, I see you have got a good batch of prisoners." "We have lost no time," Philip said.

"We have been through five villages.

At one we were just in time, for they had begun the work of massacre, before we got up.

At another, we met them as they arrived.

But at the other three, although the villagers were prepared for the work, the townsmen had not arrived." "There were only three villages on my side," Francois said.