"That is the fact.

Nothing would please him better than to take my honour first, and my life afterwards.
But, thank God, only the one is in his power." And when I came to look at the horsemen, immediately before us, they confirmed Louis's view.

They were the best mounted of the party: all men of light weight too.

One or other of them was constantly looking back.

As night fell they closed in upon us with their usual care.
When Bure joined us there was a gleam of intelligence in his bold eyes, a flash of conscious trickery.