The only others in the town were a few Cossacks, who had been ordered to stay behind to watch the movements of the Red troops.

The night came.

My friend and I were prepared either to fight or, in the last event, to commit suicide.

We stayed in a small house near the Yaga, where some workmen were living who could not, and did not feel it necessary to, leave.

They went up on a hill from which they could scan the whole country up to the range from behind which the Red detachment must appear.